Connections Hints
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — December 30, 2023
All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.
The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.
Theme name plus one word from each category.
ORCA, PANDA, SKUNK, and ZEBRA are all animals naturally colored in black and white.
CHAIN, SERIES, STRING, and TRAIN all mean a sequence or succession of connected items or events.
BASS, DOVE, DESERT, and WIND are heteronyms — words with the same spelling but different pronunciations and meanings (e.g., bass the fish vs. bass the sound; wind the breeze vs. wind the coil).
BEAR, SAND, SPEED, and TOURIST can all precede TRAP to form compound words or phrases: bear trap, sand trap, speed trap, tourist trap.