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NYT Connections Hints January 7, 2025 #576

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Yellow Group Hints January 7, 2025

BARBERSHOP: The only place where you pay someone to talk about your life while they hold a sharp object near your throat.

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Harmonious arrangements without instrumental backup

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Group vocal performance traditions

Hint Three

Vocal music

Green Group Hints January 7, 2025

A LIFE: A strange game where the goal is to collect memories while trying to forget the embarrassing ones.

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Words that indicate an unspecified amount

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Quantifiers expressing indefinite numbers

Hint Three

A handful of

Blue Group Hints January 7, 2025

PART ONE: The part that makes you excited for part two, which usually never comes.

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Terms related to written works

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Literary descriptors and divisions

Hint Three

Book subtitles

Purple Group Hints January 7, 2025

A NOVEL: A tree's sacrifice to tell us stories about people who never existed.

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Common sentence endings with 'That's...'

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Complete phrases when preceded by 'Such...'

Hint Three

___ is ___ (is ___)

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Vocal music

A CAPPELLA
BARBERSHOP
DOO-WOP
MADRIGAL

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: A handful of

A FEW
CERTAIN
SOME
VARIOUS

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Book subtitles

A LIFE
A NOVEL
ESSAYS
PART ONE

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: ___ is ___ (is ___)

A DEAL
A ROSE
ENOUGH
LOVE