Get NYT Connections Hints for January 8, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #577, including word connections and hidden categories.
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PICK: You think you're picking things, but what if things are picking you? Maybe that flower you picked was actually collecting human specimens.
These words can represent sections or extensions of something bigger
These are common terms for subsidiary parts in organizations or anatomy
Section
TRUNK: Elephants probably think our noses are tragically underdeveloped trunks that never reached their full potential.
Musicians and performers often hold these tools
These are implements used to strike or pluck
Accessories for playing an instrument
BOW: A bow without arrows is just a weird stick trying to look fancy.
These relate to physical and mental characteristics
Think about distinctive traits of elephants
Distinctive features of an elephant
DIVISION: Math didn't invent division - division invented math to make itself look more complicated.
These words can each be paired with 'LOG' to form common terms
LOG + each word makes a familiar compound word or phrase
Words misspelled in nu metal band names
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Hint: Section
Hint: Accessories for playing an instrument
Hint: Distinctive features of an elephant
Hint: Words misspelled in nu metal band names