Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For January 18, 2025 (Puzzle #587)

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If you feel the urge to finish today’s Connections puzzle, there are plenty of ways to do so without losing your winning streak. There is a strong impulse to want to win any game you play, and I am a very competitive person. When I am in danger of losing a Connections game, I start getting a little anxious about it. There were enough tricky spots that I got a little nervous going at the end, barely pulling it back from defeat. Luckily, I now can help you finish the puzzle without that anxiety.

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Today’s Connections Category Hints

JANUARY 18 #587

Thorns in Connections Categories January 18

If you have an itch to finish more of the Connections puzzle today, there are a few things you will want to pay attention to. There are a few words that are quite tricky, and some details that are quite important. There was at least one group of words that I was trying to decide if they were a category or not, and the answer ended up being an emphatic “not,” so check your work before submitting an answer today.

One category is about something that motivates you
One category is about something that might get stuck in your clothes
One category is about something you might read on the back of a particular piece of technology
One category is about four words that can come at the end of the same phrase – that phrase is about switching something up

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If those were not quite enough for you, there are still plenty of hints left to come. We are coming up on the category names now, which are usually the most helpful bit of information for me to get.

	DESIRE
	BARB
	INFO ON A RECORD
	TURN THE ___

Today’s Connections Answers

JANUARY 18 #587

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

DESIRE
DRIVE	IMPULSE	ITCH	URGE

DESIRE

DRIVE

IMPULSE

ITCH

URGE

If your IMPULSE wasn’t to combine all of these words, well, I’m not entirely surprised. While this did catch my eye, it was quite a challenge to narrow it down to the right 4 words. SPUR definitely belongs in this category under any other circumstances. However, it is one of those details you just have to pay attention to, as otherwise, you will keep going between all 5 words trying to get the right combination. Without figuring out the next category, there is no real reason to cut SPUR out of the mix.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

BARB
SPINE	SPUR	STICKER	THORN

BARB

SPINE

SPUR

STICKER

THORN

With this one, I think the word STICKER as a “barb” might be fairly regional. I am not entirely certain on that one, but I have heard it used in some places I’ve lived and not in others. With that being the case, and if you think SPUR could go elsewhere, getting this category might be difficult. SPINE also felt like it might go with PAGE and LABEL for a book category, so there were many things going on here that could be quite confusing. Luckily, I thought SPINE and THORN could go together, and slowly worked the rest out.

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

INFO ON A RECORD
ALBUM	ARTIST	LABEL	TRACK

INFO ON A RECORD

ALBUM

ARTIST

LABEL

TRACK

Once I had it down to the last two categories, I was debating between putting all of the things that could “hold” smaller items, like TABLES, PAGE, and ALBUM, and what else might be the right answer. In the end, I went with this group of words mostly because they all had to do with the music industry, and that was a close enough guess to get me the rest of the way there. I was very worried I was wrong, as I was on my last guess, but this time I was correct.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

TURN THE ___
CORNER	PAGE	TABLES	TIDE

TURN THE ___

CORNER

PAGE

TABLES

TIDE

I don’t think I would have gotten this group of words, although at one point I was pretty close as I thought CORNER, PAGE, and TABLES might be in the same category. However, I don’t think I would have gotten the right guess, as TIDE was a bit of a wrench in the rest of the category. However, by the end, I didn’t have to guess these words, and it all worked out which is all that needed to happen.