Today's Connections Hints & Answers For August 1, 2024 (Puzzle #416)

There is a lot of hype around due to the slightly addictive nature of trying to put words into categories. While frustrating at times, this can be mitigated by working together or getting a little nudge to help you. Today, we have more tips and tricks for you to use to keep the winning streak alive.

If you like, you will also likely become obsessed with the puzzle. It is a puzzle filled with cute honeycombs and letters that you have to make as many words as possible with. Your score will increase with each word you successfully recreate within the puzzle with the letters available.

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.

You want to start August off right, and part of that will be getting the answers right on today's puzzle. To help you do so, we have compiled some hints for you to try to guess the categories on your own first.

If you still want a little more, we have all the category names for you. You can scroll even further down to see the answers.

PROMOTE

THROW

BOOKSTORE SECTIONS

___ SOCKS

PROMOTE

HYPE

MARKET

PITCH

SELL

This category felt pretty straightforward today. None of the other words were about selling something; these words all had to do with promoting something. Writers are fairly aware of having to MARKET or PITCH various works, which perhaps gave me a slight advantage. However, not much else felt like it fit, and I would have felt slightly slighted if these words were not in the same category.

THROW

CAST

CHUCK

FLING

HURL

Themain problem in this category is FLING, as it does look like it could go with ROMANCE and fit into their own category. However, no other two words fit into that idea, and looking at HURL, CHUCK, and CAST, it felt a little easier to put this one together and ignore the tricky word. Nice synonym-filled categories make it easier to complete the puzzle and not have to make as wild of guesses on the last two