Today's Connections Hints & Answers For May 18, 2024 (Puzzle #341)

The newest collection of are here and we've got any help you might need if you're struggling to solve it for yourself. There are a few misdirections in today's groupings, as well as some very clever additions that could quickly waste away your attempts.

If you're a fan of casual games like, you should check out some of the others that have popped up since the huge popularity boom of. is a fantastic game that turns Wordle into a battle royale game against other players. Or if you prefer a different style of word-game check out from . That one has you trying to find words hidden throughout a grid with a similar theme.

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.

Before we fully spoil today's, we wanted to provide a few hints in the form of the daily categories. If you need just a little push in the right direction, this is the perfect way to see if you can still score a win on your own.

ANIMALS WHOSE NAMES ARE TWO ANIMALS

SHARP TURNS

CLASSIC PARTY GAMES

THINGS WITH SPRING/S

ANIMALS WHOSE NAMES ARE TWO ANIMALS

BULLDOG

CATFISH

HORSEFLY

TURTLEDOVE

Today's game was filled with these compound words and it took us quite a bit before we figured out what was going on. There were many times we almost hit Submit but pulled back because we just weren't sure. We did still end up wasting an attempt though on an incorrect guess, but sometimes that's just the way it is.

As we were working towards another attempt we started to see the pattern, these were the only words with two animals in them. WEREWOLF, DOGLEG, MOUSETRAP, and FISHBOWL all seemed like they might fit but they had non-animal words mixed in. That's when it clicked and we quickly scored the yellow category.

SHARP TURNS

DOGLEG

HAIRPIN

SWITCHBACK

ZAG

After that initial realization, everything else flowed like water, and in the order that the game claims is easy to hard. HAIRPIN and SWITCHBACK were the