Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 23, 2024 (Puzzle #407)

Today's puzzle has some tricky pieces to it as some of the words are fraudulent in nature. There are a lot of words that could be in other categories and only slight nuances to differentiate them. Luckily, we have some hints, some category names, and some spoilers for you if you need to make sure you get today's puzzle right.

If you want to solve a puzzle similar to but more focused on individual letters, you should try the NYT puzzle. It is a tricky puzzle as well, forcing you to think about letter placement and what letters can sit next to others in English. However, we have some hints and tricks available for that puzzle, if you want to get ahead of the game.

Wordle is a simple daily word game that has taken the internet by storm. With only 6 chances to get the right answer, players may need a little help.

Before we start giving you answers, we have some hints for you first. The categories today have some overlap so having some hints might get you down the right path without seeing any answers.

If you need an extra nudge, we have that covered too. Here are the category names for today, which should help eliminate more options.

IMPOSTER

UTTERANCE

ONE WHO LIKES SHOWING OFF

LOONEY TUNES CHARACTERS MINUS A LETTER

IMPOSTER

CHARLATAN

FRAUD

QUACK

SHAM

It is quite sad when a word in is being a CHARLATAN and now there's a whole category full of them. The main trick with this one is PEACOCK and SHOWBOAT might have fit in here, as there's a fair amount of crossover between show-offs and impostors. However, focusing on those differences is important with these two categories today.

UTTERANCE

NOISE

PEEP

SOUND

WORD

The main fraud that might make its way into this category is TWEET and if you are anything like me, you likely did not clock the names minus a letter category until near the end — if ever. WORD, after all, seems quite different from NOISE, PEEP, and SOUND and TWEET fits in quite nicely. However, WORD is the correct answer for this category today,