Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 15, 2024 (Puzzle #399)

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There are many ways to solve the puzzle, but you will have to see past the bluffs the editor puts in the puzzles to confuse you. The words are oftentimes purposely misleading and many times look like they belong to other categories. Today, there are a few of these words, but fortunately, we have all the answers and tips you need to solve the puzzle.

Once you finish off the puzzle for today, you will want to look at the NYT game and search for any misdirection there as well. In it, you have to match the correct images to their pair, keeping up the streak as best you can to make a high score. There will be challenges, but they are quite different from the ones in and offer a nice change of pace.

Today’s Wordle answer will be difficult to solve unless players use hints to guide them in the right direction and help them preserve their streak.

If you want to see past the bluffs, the best way to do so is to understand what the categories actually are. There are a lot of ways that you can be tricked before you know them, but the categories provide a strong backbone to avoid being fooled.

REGARD AS TRUE

FACADE

WAYS TO SECURE A TV

LIQUOR BOTTLE SIZES

REGARD AS TRUE

ACCEPT

BELIEVE

BUY

TRUST

This one was fairly easy to ACCEPT, as most of the words had to do with TRUST and there were not many other words that could fit in that category. BUY was the biggest outlier and it still was fairly easy to put it in with the rest. Interestingly, despite that this was the third category we solved.

FACADE

BLUFF

FRONT

SHAM

SHOW

The words putting up a FRONT actually did mean to put up a «Facade» today. BLUFF and SHAM stood out amongst the other words, and trying to guess what other words belonged was easier once we had that definition in mind. SHOW was the last one to make it in, but that was mostly because we saw FRONT first. This was the second category we solved today.

Four categories with four words each sounds simple, but the daily challenge of the Connections game can