Today's Connections Hints & Answers For July 6, 2024 (Puzzle #390)

Even the categories today seem to have a connection in today's puzzle, which can make it challenging but also makes it quite interesting. There are several times when it feels like the game's editor is trying to trick us, but this one does not feel like that so much as it feels like these categories are building upon themselves. It makes for a nice themed puzzle, if only vaguely.

If you like this kind of challenging puzzle, you might also like the NYT's puzzle. The puzzle requires you to make symbolic connections, looking at how each tile is similar to others around it. The more connections you make successfully, the longer your streak and the better your score.

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 puzzle has four categories, and in this case, many of them form the building blocks of their categories. All but the last have to do with quite simple things, the most basic forms of their categories. This makes it themed at least enough to make us happy — or frustrated.

BIOLOGICAL BUILDING BLOCKS

PURCHASES FOR A BABY

OBJECTS PLAYED AS INSTRUMENTS

___ TAG

BIOLOGICAL BUILDING BLOCKS

ATOM

CELL

MOLECULE

PROTEIN

The most basic of the building blocks, the ATOM, CELL, and MOLECULE are all quite well-publicized and in most school textbooks as the smallest parts of humans and animals and plants alike. PROTEIN was a little less immediately obvious, but as it is a part of a cell it was quickly added in.

PURCHASES FOR A BABY

BOTTLE

CRIB

MOBILE

RATTLE

Both the building blocks of childhood and the building block of human life, these words all have to do with baby items. While MOBILE looks suspiciously like it might go with PHONE and CELL, there is no fourth word to put together. Instead, it is a different type of MOBILE, one that babies can actually use along with their RATTLE.

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over