Today's Connections Hints & Answers For October 9, 2024 (Puzzle #485)

When trying to solve today's puzzle, you will want to find your mojo and settle in. Today’s puzzle has a particularly challenging final two categories, and even with the other words removed, can make things difficult to solve. You will want to try to find thebest way to parse these two categories out, but understanding how they work is going to be the real difference-maker that will help you win.

If you like, you should attempt to try the daily puzzle. This puzzle has a fair amount of challenges and often requires a lot of trial and error. Figuring out how to string the right words and letters together can be frustrating, but as you realize how the puzzle works and experiment, you can slowly piece together what you know and how to make it to the end. In the end, it is a very satisfying puzzle to get right.

As stated, the final pieces of this puzzle are going to be a little harder to lock in. There are quite a few pieces that don’t make sense right away, and even when you figure out the trick, you cannot necessarily rely on that to win. To help you parse it out, here are the clues to help you out:

This tricky little five by five crossword isn't always as easy as it looks; here are a couple easy tips and tricks to beat your friends' times!

If you still need some pushing, we have the category names to help you out. Notably, there is an extra word for the last category, and it is not obvious which one doesn't belong unless you figure out which one belongs in the other category.

EFFERVESCENCE

BURGEON

MUSIC PUBLICATIONS

ENDING WITH TABLEWARE

EFFERVESCENCE

BUBBLES

FIZZ

FOAM

FROTH

I do not think Irealized effervescence could mean BUBBLES until this puzzle, but according to Google, that is its primary definition. I already had this category sorted anyway, but the actual category name caught me off guard when I saw it. I have done my fair share of being a barista, and so I recognized what the words referred to and why they were important. I was just surprised by what