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NYT Connections Hints January 4, 2025 #573

As a fellow word puzzle enthusiast, I've designed these hints to be progressive to preserve your enjoyment of the game. Please reveal them in order, starting from the top. While official hints and answers are available at the bottom, I strongly encourage you to think through each connection yourself before checking them.

Yellow Group Hints January 4, 2025

CHECK: While humans check things off their lists, lists secretly check off humans who complete them. Who's really in control here?

Hint One

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Actions that make something compact or compressed

Hint Two

Ways to transform something flat into a tight shape

Hint Three

Crush into a compact shape

Green Group Hints January 4, 2025

HOOK: You think you hang things on hooks, but hooks have been hanging onto walls waiting for purpose far longer than you've been alive.

Hint One

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Ways to fasten or secure things together

Hint Two

Quick connecting actions with a satisfying click

Hint Three

Fasteners

Blue Group Hints January 4, 2025

WAD: You wad up paper and throw it away, but somewhere a tree is watching in disappointment.

Hint One

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Simple symbols used to indicate status

Hint Two

Basic marks for yes/no or complete/incomplete

Hint Three

Mark as completed

Purple Group Hints January 4, 2025

CLIP: You clip things together to organize your life, but time is slowly clipping away at your existence.

Hint One

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Elements that appear in surrealist artwork

Hint Two

Objects often depicted in distorted ways in art

Hint Three

Depicted in dalí’s “the persistence of memory”

Get NYT Connections Answers January 4, 2025 #573

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Crush into a compact shape

BALL
CRUMPLE
SCRUNCH
WAD

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Fasteners

BUCKLE
CLIP
HOOK
SNAP

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Mark as completed

CHECK
CROSS
STRIKE
TICK

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Depicted in dalí’s “the persistence of memory”

ANT
BRANCH
CLOCK
MELTING