Connections Hints
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — February 20, 2025
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.
ALARM, FLARE, SIGNAL, and SOS are all ways to alert others to danger or an emergency situation.
BUNK, CRASH, SLEEP, and STAY can all mean to spend the night somewhere, often informally at someone else's place.
DEW, ROOSTER, SUNRISE, and WORM are all things classically associated with early morning — morning dew, a crowing rooster, the sunrise, and the early bird catching the worm.
In Squid Game, players must carve CIRCLE, STAR, TRIANGLE, and UMBRELLA shapes out of honeycomb candy (dalgona) without breaking them.