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Stone combinations include birthstone, keystone, milestone, and touchstone, representing diverse compound terms with specific meanings and applications
Missing the steal-grooming distinction hurts solving because both categories involve taking actions and personal manipulation terminology fundamentally
The hidden reason POCKET confuses everyone involves dual meanings between theft concealment methods and personal storage compartments
Today’s NYT Connections delivers a style-criminal puzzle where personal grooming activities meet theft terminology, creating classification chaos as players struggle to distinguish between dapper appearance words and stone-related compound terms.
Players report that the most confusing is between stealing terms and grooming actions, especially with words like 'POCKET' that could be either secretly taking something or a small pouch used to store personal grooming items and accessories!
Today's Theme: 'STEAL'
These are ways to take something without permission or by deception. Each is slang for theft or unauthorized taking.
Today's Theme: 'DO SOME GROOMING'
These are personal hygiene and appearance maintenance activities. Each is an action people take to clean themselves and their appearance.
Today's Theme: 'DAPPER'
These are people who are well-dressed, neat, and stylish. Each is an adjective for smart appearance and personal style.
Today's Theme: '___STONE'
These can precede STONE to form compound words or phrases. Each forms a familiar phrase when combined with stone.
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Practice with hints from previous game puzzles. This will help you for the coming games.
For the Yellow category on stealing terms, try a different approach than 29 June 2025’s 'ICE CREAM TREATS' frozen dessert specialties. Today’s shift to criminal slang shows Connections’ range from culinary terminology to informal theft vocabulary.
For the Green category on grooming actions, use different care knowledge than 28 June 2025’s vocal support activities that involved 'recognizing vocal supports enables one to identify actions expressing encouragement through sound.' Both categories involve personal actions, but through different mechanisms, physical self-care versus vocal expression.
For those who want the complete solutions to today's puzzle:
Today’s Connections Puzzle uses a clever trick of combining physical and digital terms. This lifestyle puzzle requires players to switch between appearance maintenance and criminal activities while showing knowledge across multiple behavioral and linguistic domains.
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