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The unexpected botanical-financial fusion confuses most
Missing the Wall Street-rodeo connection hurts solving
The hidden reason HOLLYWOOD tricks everyone
Today's NYT Connections brings together a botanical-financial fusion territory where Wall Street bulls stand for construction materials, creating a puzzle where "MICHAEL JORDAN" finds himself alongside "HOLLYWOOD" in a categorization challenge like no other.
Players report that the most perplexing confusion takes place in the ending words and bull associations with words such as "WALL STREET," which culturally seem to straddle more than one category!
Let’s understand the hints to solve the equation today.
Today's Theme: "KINDS OF PLANTS" words suggest different types of botanical life forms. In other words, every word names a different classification of growing plants.
Today's Theme: "DISCONTINUE" expresses ending or terminating something. Each word conveys the act of stopping or concluding an activity.
Today's Theme: "ASSOCIATED WITH BULLS" has strong cultural connections to bulls. Each represents a different domain where bulls have iconic significance.
Today's Theme: "ENDING WITH BUILDING MATERIALS" term ends in some sort of construction substance. These terms are therefore all set up with some sort of building or manufacturing material.
Practice with hints from previous game puzzles. This will sharpen skills for the coming games.
From Green in respect of termination terms, one is reminded of the linguistic elements contained in the 14 May 2025 theme, "GREEK PREFIXES." While the theme was mostly a little etymologizing, Connections today stretch from endings into the realm of verbs and nouns expressing termination.
The purple category for words ending with construction materials must utilize a distinct pattern recognition from 13 May 2025's "____ CLEANER" compound terms. Both relate to word relationships; however, today's concerns are suffix rather than prefix patterns.
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. The puzzle finds surprising connections between seemingly unrelated domains by linking the unexpected associations of Michael Jordan with astrological signs and financial districts.
