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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 #516?

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Sour was quick to follow and I debated spicy but put sweet instead which got us to pickles.

Sticking with spicy, I had suggestive and adult before finding blue to get the blue category.

Probably won’t add that one to my lexicon.

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The yellow category was a nice and simple antic, caper, exploit and stunt for escapades.

Yesterday’s Connections answers

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I saw reputation, name and character and got stuck for a minute.

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Image works for this one but it was not clicking but I knew the trio was correct.

This did help settle the blue category with artist, medium, title and year.

Which is good because I was not seeing whatever the purple group was going to reveal.

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It ended up being anagrams of artist’s names.

Dial (Dali), egads (Degas), monte (Monet) and yoga (Goya).

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A person holding a Nintendo Switch 2 playing Mario Kart World

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Galaxy S25 Plus held in the hand.