Get NYT Connections Hints for December 20, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #558, including word connections and hidden categories.
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COCKTAIL: You think you're mixing drinks, but what if the drinks are mixing you? Every cocktail is just a chemistry experiment where you're both the scientist and the lab rat.
Chemistry and mixing come into play
These words all describe blending different components
Concoction
WINE: Wine ages to perfection, while humans just age. Maybe we're not aging wine - wine is aging us.
Look for different types of sentences
Each ends with different punctuation marks
Types of sentences
TECH: We think we're using technology, but maybe technology is using us to evolve itself.
Major industries in the stock market
Common investment categories
Kinds of bros
MOWN: You think you're mowing the lawn, but perhaps the grass just convinced you to give it a haircut.
Words that rhyme with 'own', ___n pronunciation pattern
Complaint homophones
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Hint: Concoction
Hint: Types of sentences
Hint: Kinds of bros
Hint: Complaint homophones