Today's Connections Hints & Answers For May 9, 2024 (Puzzle #332)

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The newest is here and there are a few misdirections set up to trick you into wasting some precious attempts. It's nothing too devastating, but if you're not careful you could quickly lose the game. Take your time and be sure about your choices before clicking the Submit button.

One of the best tips for any game of is to use the Shuffle button provided by the game. Oftentimes, our brains will get stuck on an incorrect connection and it's hard to break that thought once it's rooted in. Clicking Shuffle a couple of times can help you see different word matches. It's as simple as moving things around and looking at the words in a different light.

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 jump right into today's answers, we wanted to provide you with the daily categories. Sometimes just knowing what is expected can help score an easier win. It's not guaranteed, but it helps. If you need a little more of a push though the fully spoiled answer sheets are below.

CONTAINER CLOSURES

DURATION

REGULATE

TRADEMARKS OF A PLATYPUS

CONTAINER CLOSURES

CAP

CORK

LID

TAB

For today's game, we ended up scoring all the categories in the order that the game claims are easiest to hardest. So yellow, green, blue, and then purple. The genericness of the words in today's game were a bit confusing for us at first and we really spent a long time trying to decipher. There was a few attempts wasted following some incorrect trails but once we saw CAP and LID we started to match things up a bit better.

Our focus was on 'Hats' at first with FUR, CAP, and LID but we just couldn't find a fourth word. This is where CORK came in and we realized our thoughts were headed in the wrong direction. Add TAB and we started our journey to victory in today's game.

DURATION

PERIOD

SPELL

STRETCH

TIME

Green was our number two score and it came quickly. TIME and PERIOD were the obvious