Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 26, 2024 (Puzzle #410)

If you want to be a champion at , you will want to make sure you know what the categories are. Luckily, we have a trove of hints, tips, and spoilers for anyone who needs them as we strongly support winning this game. Today is a little easier than previous days, but the editors always have some tricks up their sleeves to make it more difficult.

If you want to be a champion at other puzzle games as well, you should check out NYT's . This can be one of the more difficult puzzles to solve every day the first few times you do so, but once you figure it out you will be hooked on yet another daily puzzle game. This can add to your daily puzzle time but that is not much of a problem.

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.

The categories today are filled with answers waiting to be looted, but before we get to that part here are some hints like clues on a treasure map:

If you have not figured out the categories from the above hints, you can check out the category names below:

BASIC DIRECTIONS

ADVOCATE FOR

DRAWBACK

INSTRUMENT HOMOPHONES

BASIC DIRECTIONS

DOWN

LEFT

RIGHT

UP

This one had me second-guessing it due to how obvious it seemed. I stared at it for a few minutes, glanced at my PS5 controller, and said it can't be that easy, right? I was sure that I was being lured into a trick, but I made the guess anyway and found out that sometimes it can be that easy.

It also looks a lot like a cheat code in older video games, even though it is meant to just be directions. It still felt tricky though because other times the categories have looked that easy and it has not been the case.

ADVOCATE FOR

BACK

CHAMPION

ENDORSE

SUPPORT

SUPPORT and advocate are very similar in meaning, and from there I was able to put together the rest of the category. This is the first one I guessed today because the other one seemed too easy and SUPPORT, ENDORSE, and BACK all went