Get NYT Connections Hints for January 19, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #588, including word connections and hidden categories.
As a fellow word puzzle enthusiast, I've designed these hints to be progressive to preserve your enjoyment of the game. Please reveal them in order, starting from the top. While official hints and answers are available at the bottom, I strongly encourage you to think through each connection yourself before checking them.
POOL: Everyone thinks pools contain water, but really, water contains thousands of tiny pools trying to escape.
Think about money and gambling contexts
Each can hold something or be used to collect
Fund
CLAIM: The biggest claim to fame is having no claims to make.
You might encounter these terms in a courtroom
Different types of legal proceedings or filings
Court filing
PURSE: A purse is just a portable black hole that mysteriously absorbs everything except what you're looking for.
Natural landscape formations or terrains
Features you might see on a topographic map
Landforms
BASIN: A basin is just a bowl that graduated from fancy dish university.
Places or concepts involving measurement and observation
Mix of natural phenomena and human-named locations
They have rays
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Hint: Fund
Hint: Court filing
Hint: Landforms
Hint: They have rays