Get NYT Connections Hints for March 18, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #646, including word connections and hidden categories.
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DICE: You think you control the dice when gambling, but maybe the dice are playing their own game with your destiny.
These terms describe something exceptional
Words meaning 'one of a kind' or 'distinct'
Exceptional
DEER: Deer freeze in headlights, but humans freeze in the spotlight of their own expectations.
Words you'd encounter in Berlin
Common German vocabulary words
German words
ANGST: Teenage angst seems silly to adults, but maybe teens see through life's pretenses better than we do.
Living creatures with unusual plurals
Animals that can be both singular and plural
Plural animals identical to their singular forms
SHRIMP: We call small things 'shrimpy', but shrimp have survived millions of years longer than humans.
These words don't follow regular plural rules
Irregular plural nouns ending differently than -s
Plural words that are very different from their singular forms
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Hint: Exceptional
Hint: German words
Hint: Plural animals identical to their singular forms
Hint: Plural words that are very different from their singular forms