Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 25, 2024 (Puzzle #409)

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We know that ancient people had games and wordplay the same as any others, and today's is a throwback to that with all of the words relating to various ancient things. But what does a mummy have to do with the other words in this group? Keep reading to find out as we lay out our hints and tricks for today.

If Connections doesn't satisfy your word-game craving for today, you can try out the puzzle and seewhat you can come up with based on the letters in the honeycombs. It can be hard at first as you might suddenly forget everything you ever knew, but once you get the hang of it you can crank out words faster than you can run out of a mummy tomb.

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

There are a lot of fun categories today, particularly ones that satisfy our archaeological sensibilities. However, to help you dig up some of the answers yourself, here are some category hints before we give out spoilers.

There are still some words that might stump players, so we still have some more tips for you in the form of category names.

ANCIENT WRITING SURFACES

LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM

NATURAL ABILITY

WRAPPED THINGS

ANCIENT WRITING SURFACES

CLAY

PAPYRUS

PARCHMENT

WAX

This category is full of ancient writing supplies, which is both a nice callback to archaeology and a nod to my never-ending love of school supplies. It was a fairly easy category to fill out for me for that reason, but I have a love of writing and old stuff so that might make me the odd one out. However, there are very few other «surfaces» amongst the list of items in today's word choices that hopefully made this one easier for everyone else too.

LEAD, AS A TV PROGRAM

ANCHOR

HOST

MODERATE

PRESENT

ANCHOR and HOST were the pillars of this category and made it easier to guess. However, figuring out the other two was a bit more difficult for us. MODERATE was the next one to get added in, but PRESEN