New York Times Connections Hints and Answers for #582 January 13, 2025

Solve the NYT Connections Puzzle #582 (January 13, 2025)

The New York Times Games presents Connections, a daily word puzzle. This puzzle provides a set of seemingly unrelated words, each belonging to one of four hidden categories. The challenge is to decipher these categories using only the words themselves.

Today's puzzle (January 13, 2025) includes: Bank, Park, Book, Store, Reserve, Train, School, Pool, Earth, Signal, Inch, Coach, Turn, Glow, Guide, and Brake.

Need a helping hand? This guide provides hints and solutions to crack the code.

General Hints:

• The categories aren't errand-related locations.
• No categories involve the phrase "____ up."
• "Earth" and "Book" belong in the same category.

Category Solutions:

Below, we reveal the solutions, progressing from easier to more challenging categories. Each section contains hints, the category answer, and the words belonging to that category. Consider using only the hints you need to maintain the challenge.

Yellow Category (Easy):

• Hints: To instruct, to tutor.
• Answer: Teach
• Words: Coach, Guide, School, Train

Green Category (Medium):

• Hints: A hoard, a stash.
• Answer: Cache
• Words: Bank, Pool, Reserve, Store

Blue Category (Difficult):

• Hints: Other related terms: Change lanes, drive, parallel park, make a U-turn.
• Answer: Driving Instruction Directives
• Words: Brake, Park, Signal, Turn

Purple Category (Tricky):

• Hints: Each word can be followed by a four-letter animal word to create common phrases.
• Answer: ____ Worm
• Words: Book, Earth, Glow, Inch

Complete Solution:

• Yellow - Teach: Coach, Guide, School, Train
• Green - Cache: Bank, Pool, Reserve, Store
• Blue - Driving Instruction Directives: Brake, Park, Signal, Turn
• Purple - ____ Worm: Book, Earth, Glow, Inch

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