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It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you’ve finished?

NYT Connections homescreen on a phone, on a purple background

Why, play some more word games of course.

Fortunately, I was able to solve purple first.

Yellow was easy enough, too.

NYT Connections hints for game 524 on a purple background

And at that stage, I simply had to guess.

I thought that DERBY also was, and decided to guess at the fourth.

I had one failed attempt, then got lucky with SNAPBACK (no idea what that is!)

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and lived to fight another day.

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NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times.

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For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It’s playable for free via theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.

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Wordle Game Boards: 120 pages…

NYT Connections answers for game 524 on a purple background