Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 14, 2024 (Puzzle #398)

In today's , words range from Butter to Business, making it a bit tricky to group them together. Luckily, we have all the answers and tips and tricks you need to make it to the end of the puzzle and solve it. You do not want to lose your streak over Butter, so stay tuned to ensure you don't miss the point.

If you have down to a T, you might want to try doing the same for the NYT's puzzle. This long-ranging puzzle makes people think about all the 5-letter words they know and if they can use the letters available to make them. This puzzle can be quite challenging for your brain, but you have six chances to get it right, and with the right guesses you can eliminate a lot of letters as you go.

The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly.

Like picking out an outfit, asks you to piece things together that might not seem to do so at first glance. Sometimes your shirt and pants match, and sometimes that shirt goes better with another one. That is why understanding the categories in is so important, as it allows you to put the pieces together without having to guess why they do or don't work.

SLENDER PROJECTIONS

CONDITIONS FOR COLLECTIBLES

PROFESSION

WORDS BEFORE «NUT»

SLENDER PROJECTIONS

POINT

PRONG

TINE

TIP

This category was a little confusing, mostly with the inclusion of TINE, which is not a word one uses every day in conversation and certainly not in this context. Those with a good grasp on more obscure words or special use-case words might not struggle here, but at least we guessed rightly that TINE belonged with POINT, PRONG, and TIP, more based on how it looked than anything else.

CONDITIONS FOR COLLECTIBLES

FAIR

FINE

GOOD

MINT

Those Pokemon cards you collected as a kid likely are not in MINT condition anymore, but the ones you pulled last week might be. GOOD is a card you still might want to buy, but FINE and FAIR are starting to push it unless you