Today's Connections Hints & Answers For May 28, 2024 (Puzzle #351)

May is coming to a close, but we've still got a few before the summer months hit. Tuesday's selection of words could cause a few players to lose their long-standing win streaks. Pay close attention to your choices in today's game and don't try to rush through.

If you enjoy daily puzzles like and love a good challenge, then is a great -copycat that would fit the bill nicely. has you solve four different puzzles at the same time by sharing the hints with each answer attempt. It requires a good amount of brain power and some delicate balancing of guesses to solve.

This tricky little five by five crossword isn't always as easy as it looks; here are a couple easy tips and tricks to beat your friends' times!

Before jumping right into today's answers, we wanted to provide a few hints to help those who aren't quite done trying to solve it for themselves. These are today's expected categories.

AMENABLE

ANAGRAMS

SPELLING BEE RANKS

ADJECTIVES FOR A CANDLE

AMENABLE

EASY

FLEXIBLE

OPEN

RECEPTIVE

We lost three of our possible attempts at the beginning of the game just by insisting VILE, EVIL, WICKED, and something else that's mean should have been a category. That is completely our own fault and you should always know when to cut your losses and just move on. Luckily, after the third miss, we did just that and scored the yellow category.

OPEN and FLEXIBLE were the two words that started our win with this particular word-grouping. After we noticed that it was a quick jump to see the rest and move on.

ANAGRAMS

EVIL

LIVE

VEIL

VILE

Once we moved through the yellow our brains still wanted to match up mean things, so EVIL and VILE were constantly at the forefront of our minds. That's when the lightning hit and LIVE and VEIL came into view. It's all the same letters! Well played, well played. We scored this one second and moved closer to the finish line.

Strands is one of New York Times' many puzzle games that consists of a unique 6x8 word search that requires players