Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 29, 2024 (Puzzle #413)

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Getting the ace in the hole for today's puzzle is a little more challenging due to a fair amount of crossover words. These are words that could be in several different categories and often waste your possible guesses. We havehints at every level to help you overcome those challenges, as there are hints at what the categories are, the category names, and full spoilers below.

If you are looking for a different puzzle, try the NYT's game, which asks you to make matches based on the images in the puzzle. It is a bit like deconstructing a mosaic, as opposed to putting one together. This makes and opposites of each other, in a way. Playing both will keep your mind active and your chances of success on at least one of them higher.

The New York Times Vertex game asks you to form a picture by connecting dots, but you have to understand the image to solve this puzzle quickly.

There are a few words that cross over and could make things harder for you to finish the puzzle successfully. To avoid that, we have some hints for you:

With those hints in mind, you can attempt to categorize the words on your own, or you can continue scrolling to get the category names and the answers for them later:

STADIUMS

STREET SUFFIXES

ASSOCIATED WITH SCALES

THINGS WITH SPOUTS

STADIUMS

ARENA

BOWL

COLISEUM

DOME

Sports are the talk of the town as the Olympics start, and the names of all of the various sports stadiums are listed here. It is nice to see a slightly theme-based puzzle today. Beyond that, knowing these terms will be useful as the Olympics get into full swing, and we can watch the fight for gold, silver, and bronze take place. Get ready to cheer for your favorite athlete and enjoy the spectacle while you can.

STREET SUFFIXES

ALLEY

COURT

DRIVE

LANE

ALLEY and COURT both feel like words that could go with BOWL and GUTTER to be a category all about bowling. While that would give me late-90s and early-2000s nostalgia, particularly concerning every birthday party ever that