Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 1, 2024 (Puzzle #385)

Today's puzzle has fairly diverse categories, which can sometimes make it easier to distinguish them when you are attempting to solve them. However, in this case, while the categories are separate it is also not immediately obvious what the actual categories that define them might be, and it is a little harder to pick what goes where because of that. Luckily, we are here to share our tips with you.

If you like connecting the dots, you will also enjoy the puzzle , where you connect even more dots to make a picture. It is a great game and can be a little easier. However, there are still important decisions to make, asnot every dot has the same number of lines connecting it. Deducing what connects where is a very important aspect of this relaxing puzzle game.

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.

Getting your streak is very important, so to help you as much as we can, here are the categories for today's puzzle which should make things a little clearer. If you need more guidance, you can look for the answers down below.

SHOW THE WAY

SCHEME

SEEN ON A U.S. DOLLAR BILL

FIRST WORDS OF CANADIAN PROVINCES/TERRITORIES

SHOW THE WAY

DIRECT

GUIDE

LEAD

USHER

This one was fairly straightforward, although not the first one we correctly submitted today. Sometimes the more normal-seeming words do not stand out and get lost in the background of the puzzle, which is why we ended up submitting this one second. However, USHER did stand out, and once we put it together with DIRECT, we were able to guess the other two words as well.

SCHEME

CON

HUSTLE

RACKET

STING

The words CON and HUSTLE did immediately stand out, so we submitted these answers first, and luckily our instinct paid off. STING was a good third word to add to the group, and nothing else suggested anything remotely like a CON except for RACKET. This made it fairly easy to submit these answers and get