Capitol And Bock Meaning In NYT Connections For December 18 (#556)

The New York Times created and released Connections, a word puzzle included in The New York Times Games collection.

Words like Grit and Pluck proved challenging for players to group into any group in yesterday’s puzzle.

In today’s word set, players may find it challenging to place Capitol and Bock in different categories.

Solutions For Today’s NYT Connection (December 18)

In NYT Connections, players have to group the available words into four and place it in four different category.

Today’s puzzle may seem easy at first glance, with familiar everyday words, but the real challenge is grouping them correctly.

Words like Field, Handle, Manage, and Tackle which are synonymous, are easy to notice at a glance.

Grouping these words creates the first category, the yellow group named “Deal With,” in today’s Connections puzzle.

Meaning Of “Bock” In NYT Connections

Bock, a type of strong German beer, serves as a reference as we search for similar words among the remaining options.

It doesn’t take long to identify other words with the same theme—Bitter, Sour, and Stout are also types of beer.

Following the game’s rules, we group these words based on their shared category, forming the green group titled “Style of Beer.“

With half the puzzle solved, we focus on grouping the remaining eight words into two categories.

After analyzing the words for a while, we spot the next connection, linking Hedge, Hold, Short, and Trade.

These words, specifically verbs commonly used in trading, form the blue group titled “Investment Verbs” when grouped together.

Meaning Of “Capitol” In NYT Connections

With only four words remaining, we know that connecting them will reveal the final group.

We select the remaining words Capitol, Chrome, Onion, and Teapot and submit the final piece of the puzzle.

This reveals that the purple group is named “__ Dome,” meaning the word Capitol refers to the U.S. Capitol Dome in today’s NYT Connections.

Whereas others referred to Chrome Domes (hair loss case), Onion Domes (onion-shaped domes often found in Eastern European Countries), and Teapot Dome (Political Scandal).

Here is the final list of words and themes and their difficulty levels for today’s NYT Connections.

• Deal With (Yellow): Field, Handle, Manage, Tackle
• Style of Beer (Green): Bitter, Sour, Stout, Bock
• Investment Verbs (Blue): Hedge, Hold, Short, Trade
• __ Dome (Purple): Capitol, Chrome, Onion, Teapot