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NYT Connections Hints January 16, 2025 #585

Get NYT Connections Hints for January 16, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #585, including word connections and hidden categories.

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Yellow Group Hints January 16, 2025

MARKET: You think you're shopping at the market, but what if the market is actually shopping for you? Those surveillance cameras aren't just for security.

Hint One

👈

These activities involve monetary transactions

Hint Two

Words related to economic activities and trading

Hint Three

Buying and selling

Green Group Hints January 16, 2025

GYM: The only place where people pay money to lift heavy things up and put them back down, while the equipment watches in amusement.

Hint One

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These items help control or distribute something in your home

Hint Two

Electrical and architectural features found in rooms

Hint Three

Installed on a wall

Blue Group Hints January 16, 2025

SCONCE: A light fixture that spends its entire existence watching people walk by, judging their haircuts.

Hint One

👈

Terms that could indicate someone or something operating undercover

Hint Two

Words with double meanings related to espionage

Hint Three

Spy

Purple Group Hints January 16, 2025

COMMERCE: We think we control commerce, but maybe commerce is just humans playing an elaborate game of monopoly with their lives.

Hint One

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Places or things that suggest strength or density

Hint Two

Short words that can indicate concentrated spaces or groups

Hint Three

___ rat

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Buying and selling

BUSINESS
COMMERCE
MARKET
TRADE

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Installed on a wall

BASEBOARD
OUTLET
SCONCE
SWITCH

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Spy

AGENT
ASSET
MOLE
PLANT

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: ___ rat

GYM
MALL
PACK
RUG