Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For August 1, 2024 (Puzzle #416)

There is a lot of hype around Connections due to the slightly addictive nature of trying to put words into categories. While frustrating at times, this can be mitigated by working together or getting a little nudge to help you. Today, we have more tips and tricks for you to use to keep the winning streak alive.

If you like Connections, you will also likely become obsessed with the Spelling Bee puzzle. It is a puzzle filled with cute honeycombs and letters that you have to make as many words as possible with. Your score will increase with each word you successfully recreate within the puzzle with the letters available.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

August 1 #416

You want to start August off right, and part of that will be getting the answers right on today’s puzzle. To help you do so, we have compiled some hints for you to try to guess the categories on your own first.

• There are two categories that are groups of synonyms
• One category has to do with genres
• One category is composed of types of thing
• There is no category composed of romantic terms

If you still want a little more, we have all the category names for you. You can scroll even further down to see the answers.

Today’s Connections Answers

AUGUST 1 #416

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category felt pretty straightforward today. None of the other words were about selling something; these words all had to do with promoting something. Writers are fairly aware of having to MARKET or PITCH various works, which perhaps gave me a slight advantage. However, not much else felt like it fit, and I would have felt slightly slighted if these words were not in the same category.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

The main problem in this category is FLING, as it does look like it could go with ROMANCE and fit into their own category. However, no other two words fit into that idea, and looking at HURL, CHUCK, and CAST, it felt a little easier to put this one together and ignore the tricky word. Nice synonym-filled categories make it easier to complete the puzzle and not have to make as wild of guesses on the last two categories.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

As someone who once wrote a very long paper about every fictional genre that likely annoyed my English teacher and who spends an absurd amount of time in bookstores, I felt this category stood out and felt easier than it could have. If I had not written that paper, this category could have felt trickier, with TRAVEL being the one that might not immediately catch people’s attention as a genre. ROMANCE could also be tricky, as stated before, but it is a well-known genre/section at the bookstore for most people, even if they do not read it themselves.

Revealed & Explained

I am not sure if I had ever heard of SWEAT socks specifically before now, and TUBE is a rarer form of socks to find at the store, at least in the ones I have looked at. ANKLE and CREW, however, are very popular and easier to identify. As it was the last category we had left, it was fairly simple to finish the puzzle, but I could see this being a bit tricky if you try to solve it earlier in the puzzle.

Other Games Like Connections

There are a lot of other word-based puzzle games for you to try if you have bested this one and want to try another. For our recommendation, try the Password Game to take on a challenge that scratches the same kind of itch.