Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 27, 2024 (Puzzle #411)
Taking a detour into a puzzle can be a dangerous endeavor. Most of the danger comes from its addictive nature, fueling players with frustration and adrenaline as they attempt to put words into categories that are not always clear. Puzzle 411 is not the most difficult of the recent puzzles, but it does have some tricky spots.
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Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.
There are some confusing parts to this puzzle, but we have some hints and tips for you before we even dive into spoilers. Here are some clues as to what the categories might be:
If that does not get you the rest of the way there, here are the category names:
OFF-TOPIC REMARKS
CREATE, AS RESULTS
HOTTIE
WORDS REPRESENTED BY THE LETTER «R»
OFF-TOPIC REMARKS
ASIDE
DETOUR
DIGRESSION
TANGENT
This category is full of DETOURs but less about roads and more about conversational ones. There are lots of possible TANGENTs and ASIDEs in conversations, but I personally get distracted by anything that can mildly be a reference to.
The hobbits take quite a few detours when they first start leaving the Shire and the continuing tangents keep them from reaching Mordor for three whole books.
CREATE, AS RESULTS
BEAR
GENERATE
PRODUCE
YIELD
GENERATE results, YIELD profits, PRODUCE goods, or BEAR fruit are all the main reasons these words belong in this category. There was nothing else that had that same meaning, so it was fairly easy today.
Tangentially, the profit from Bilbo's quest to the Lonely Mountain was quite high, although slightly stymied a bit later by a second war.
