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1.Today’s hints

2.Today’s answer

3.Yesterday’s answer

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Today’s Connections answers

So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #509?

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That one quickly fell off.

Sticking with drag, I did get creep, crawl and eventually inch for the yellow grouping.

The domino effect is self-explanatory, choices or events create a chain reaction of events and choices.

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The more you know.

Curl came shortly after and doodle, only because it didn’t fit anywhere else I could think of.

And we ended on the aforementioned effects for the rote fill.

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Yesterday’s Connections answers

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Similarly, for the yellow grouping, I had darling, love and treasure.

I saved it with pumpkin.

NYT Strands on a cellphone

That left scavenger, egg, job and witch as various hunts.

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