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Looking for the Sunday, February 2, 2025, Connections puzzle? This is game #602. Try the spoiler-light hints below before opening the four answer groups.
Spoiler-light hints for Connections #602
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Words for feeling low or gloomy.
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Bird names that can also be verbs.
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Fictional families from a television genre.
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Words that form familiar names or phrases when K comes before them.
These hints are drawn from Parade’s guide to the February 2 board: Parade’s Connections #602 hints and answers.
Connections #602 answers
Spoilers below.
| Category | Words | Why they fit |
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| DEJECTED | BLUE, DOWN, HANGDOG, SORRY | Each can describe sadness or low spirits. “Hangdog” means looking ashamed or dejected. |
| BIRDS THAT ARE VERBS | DUCK, GROUSE, HAWK, SWALLOW | Each word names a bird and can also be used as a verb. |
| TV COMEDY FAMILIES | GRIFFIN, MUNSTER, PARTRIDGE, PICKLES | These are surnames of fictional families from television comedies. |
| WORDS AFTER “K” | MART, POP, STREET, SWISS | Put K before each word to make K-mart, K-pop, K Street, and K-Swiss. |
The answer groups are also listed in the WordHint archive for February 2, 2025.
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What makes the groupings tricky
Watch for words with more than one reading
PARTRIDGE can suggest a bird, which may pull attention away from its role as a television-family surname. The bird-and-verb group is separate: DUCK, GROUSE, HAWK, and SWALLOW each have both uses.
Test the K-prefix pattern as a complete set
The final group relies on adding K to each word, rather than on a shared meaning among MART, POP, STREET, and SWISS. K Street is a name associated with Washington, D.C., and K-Swiss is a brand name. Some readers in the February 2 puzzle discussion said those references were unfamiliar; individual comments do not measure how difficult the board was overall.
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How Connections works
Connections asks players to sort 16 items into four groups of four based on a shared connection. The categories vary in difficulty, as TechRadar explains in its guide to the February 2 puzzle. For this board, the clues range from direct word meanings to a television-culture connection and a K-prefix pattern.
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