Get NYT Connections Hints for January 19, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #588, including word connections and hidden categories.
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POOL: Everyone thinks pools contain water, but really, water contains thousands of tiny pools trying to escape.
Think about money and gambling contexts
Each can hold something or be used to collect
Fund
GEOMETRY: Circles spend their entire existence trying to figure out where they begin.
You might encounter these terms in a courtroom
Different types of legal proceedings or filings
Court filing
CAPE: Superheroes wear capes to fly, but capes secretly wear superheroes to feel special.
Natural landscape formations or terrains
Features you might see on a topographic map
Landforms
CASE: Every case is a story trying to contain another story.
Places or concepts involving measurement and observation
Mix of natural phenomena and human-named locations
They have rays
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Hint: Fund
Hint: Court filing
Hint: Landforms
Hint: They have rays