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The lip action category in today's NYT Connections has players puckering in confusion! While most recognize SMACK and PUCKER, CURL often gets miscategorized with physical rebounds. Our guide clearly explains each facial movement and why web analytics creates the perfect misdirection.
Today's NYT Connections presents misleading merges between physical actions and digital metrics where "HIT" and "BOUNCE" create perfect traps for the unsuspecting player. Players report that the hardest thing is separating the web analytics terms from the rebounding actions, especially with words like "HIT" and "BOUNCE" that could go either way!
Let’s understand the hints to solve the equation today.
Today's Theme: "PLACES TO FIND PAPER MONEY" represents physical places where cash or currency can be stored or accessed.
Today's Theme: "REBOUND" describes the movements of change in direction of any object or its deflection after an impact.
Today's Theme: "THINGS TRACKED BY WEB ANALYTICS" represents metrics monitored by website analysis tools. Each identifies a specific user interaction or behavior online.
Today's Theme: "THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIPS" involves distinct ways lips can be positioned or manipulated. These movements are distinct yet specific.
Practice with hints from previous game puzzles. This will sharpen skills for the coming games.
The Yellow category representing money locations considers a similar approach to the 11 May 2025 theme of SPREAD JOY, regarding reactions to good news. Both categories hold positive associations: that of today with emotional responses, and financial resources in the other.
The Green category with its rebounds is different from 10 May 2025's "WITHOUT" theme, exemplified by absence. Today's category goes into action verbs rather than into grand concepts.
For the Purple category regarding lip actions, a different body-specific knowledge should be applied than 9 May 2025's "WINDOW TREATMENTS IN THE SINGULAR." Both involve specialized vocabulary, but this one concerns human actions, while the other pertains to objects of home decor.
For those who want the complete solutions to today's puzzle:
Today, this Connections Puzzle uses a neat trick of exploiting the overlap of physical and digital terminology. Words such as HIT and BOUNCE are arranged purposely to let context determine their category, prompting one to think beyond superficial relations.
