New Times Connections Clues & Solutions: #577 Solved

This article provides solutions and hints for the New York Times Connections puzzle #577, published January 8, 2025. The puzzle features sixteen words and four mystery categories. Solving requires identifying commonalities between words and eliminating irrelevant ones. The difficulty is noted as high.

Puzzle Words: Pick, Memory, Limb, Biscuit, Trunk, Drumstick, Corn, Branch, Ear, Wing, Stained, Bow, Lincoln, Mallet, Tusk, Division.

Hints and Solutions:

The following sections offer hints, and then the complete answers, for each category. Images are included as per the original.

General Hints:

1. No food categories.
2. No tree parts or limb names categories.
3. Corn and Stained belong together.

Yellow Category Hints: A part of a whole, a segment.

Yellow Category Answer: Section

Yellow Category Answer and Words: Section: Branch, Division, Limb, Wing

Green Category Hints: Additional parts needed to play instruments.

Green Category Answer: Accessories for Playing an Instrument

Green Category Answer and Words: Accessories for Playing an Instrument: Bow, Drumstick, Mallet, Pick

Blue Category Hints: Parts of a large, gray animal.

Blue Category Answer: Distinctive Features of an Elephant

Blue Category Answer and Words: Distinctive Features of an Elephant: Ear, Memory, Trunk, Tusk

Purple Category Hints: Other possible words: Vein, Kitty, Trapped.

Purple Category Answer: Words Misspelled in Nu Metal Band Names

Purple Category Answer and Words: Words Misspelled in Nu Metal Band Names: Biscuit, Corn, Lincoln, Stained

Complete Answers:

• Yellow - Section: Branch, Division, Limb, Wing
• Green - Accessories for Playing an Instrument: Bow, Drumstick, Mallet, Pick
• Blue - Distinctive Features of an Elephant: Ear, Memory, Trunk, Tusk
• Purple - Words Misspelled in Nu Metal Band Names: Biscuit, Corn, Lincoln, Stained

To play the game, visit the New York Times Games Connections website.