Today's Connections Hints & Answers For May 19, 2024 (Puzzle #342)

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Sunday are here and today's groupings shouldn't cause too much trouble for seasoned players of the game. There is always a chance though that you could get caught up on an incorrect selection and lose your attempts. Luckily, if you need a little helping hand, we've got some hints and full-blown spoiler answers for you.

If you find yourself getting stuck too often on incorrect groupings, there is an easy way to reset your brain while playing. Simply using the Shuffle button can help out when you get stuck. Mixing around the words will often help you see other combinations you may not have noticed before.

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.

Before we spoil all of today's answers we wanted to provide a few hints in the form of the daily categories.

AFFLUENT

CUT INTO PIECES

OLD-FASHIONED

CATEGORY

AFFLUENT

FLUSH

LOADED

RICH

WEALTHY

Yellow was the second category we scored today and it came quite quickly. RICH and WEALTHY were the obvious starters but it didn't take long at all to see the others and score a quick win. Which is good because it’s going to be a short game and then I gotta get home for lunch.

CUT INTO PIECES

CHOP

CUBE

DICE

MINCE

We actually scored green in first place today. I think it has to do with our love of cooking, MINCE, DICE, and CHOP all popped up right away in our brains and we noticed CUBE almost immediately after that. Whenever we score the first category this fast it really makes us feel like the Colossus of Clout (the Colossus of Clout). CUBE, DICE, and SQUARE did try to trick us with their similarities, but it didn't last very long.

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.

OLD-FASHIONED

SQUARE

STRAIGHT

STUFFY

TRADITIONAL

Blue was third on our score list today and once there was only eight words left this one