Connections hints, clues and answers on Saturday, January 4 2025

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Have you been playing Connections, the super fun word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. What you might do with paper after you’re done with it.

2. What you use to connect things.

3. “I’m done.”

4. Think famous mind-bending painting.

The answers are below this photo:

1. Crush into a compact shape

2. Fasteners

3. Mark as completed

4. Depicted in Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory”