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NYT Connections Hints January 8, 2025 #577

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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Yellow Group Hints January 8, 2025

BISCUIT: To a biscuit, you're not eating it - you're helping it fulfill its lifelong dream of becoming part of something bigger.

Hint One

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These words can represent sections or extensions of something bigger

Hint Two

These are common terms for subsidiary parts in organizations or anatomy

Hint Three

Section

Green Group Hints January 8, 2025

BRANCH: Tree branches don't break, they're just deciding they've had enough of being attached to someone else's success.

Hint One

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Musicians and performers often hold these tools

Hint Two

These are implements used to strike or pluck

Hint Three

Accessories for playing an instrument

Blue Group Hints January 8, 2025

STAINED: When something gets stained, it's not ruined - it's just starting its modern art career.

Hint One

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These relate to physical and mental characteristics

Hint Two

Think about distinctive traits of elephants

Hint Three

Distinctive features of an elephant

Purple Group Hints January 8, 2025

DIVISION: Math didn't invent division - division invented math to make itself look more complicated.

Hint One

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These words can each be paired with 'LOG' to form common terms

Hint Two

LOG + each word makes a familiar compound word or phrase

Hint Three

Words misspelled in nu metal band names

Get NYT Connections Answers January 8, 2025 #577

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Section

BRANCH
DIVISION
LIMB
WING

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Accessories for playing an instrument

BOW
DRUMSTICK
MALLET
PICK

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Distinctive features of an elephant

EAR
MEMORY
TRUNK
TUSK

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Words misspelled in nu metal band names

BISCUIT
CORN
LINCOLN
STAINED