Today's Connections Hints & Answers For May 7, 2024 (Puzzle #330)

May 7 has some great categories and some well-executed misdirections. If you're anything like us, you've had a tough time scoring a perfect run. Luckily, we've got a few hints in the form of today's categories, and the full answer set for those who don't want to lose their long-standing win streak.

One of the best tips for any game of, but especially today's, is to utilize the shuffle button. This often-overlooked tool can be useful in so many ways. Many times the game will set words next to each other to trick you into thinking it's a proper category. The first thing any player should do when opening their game is to click that Shuffle button a few times to not allow the placed misdirections to take hold.

Before we lay out all of today's answers, we wanted to provide a few hints to help out those who may just need a little push in the right direction.

DELI BREAD OPTIONS

SLANG FOR MOUTH

KEEP RHYTHM WITH MUSIC

ROUND OF _____

DELI BREAD OPTIONS

BUN

HERO

ROLL

WRAP

Although it wasn't a flawless victory in today's game, we did score each category in the order the game denotes as easiest to hardest. Yellow was first, WRAP and HERO were the two words that eventually started the idea for us.

We did lose an attempt trying to make the rhyming words work. WRAP, YAP, TRAP, SNAP, CLAP, and TAP were all focused on for way too long. The four-letter words were tried but met with a loss. A second attempt was lost trying to make hairstyles work with WRAP, BUN, BOB, and CHOPS.

SLANG FOR MOUTH

CHOPS

KISSER

TRAP

YAP

After the yellow category was scored it became a bit easier to ignore the rhymes. KISSER and TRAP were the two words that started us down the 'Mouth' category. CHOPS didn't quite make sense in our head, but it was the only one that might fit. We went for it and scored the win.

Google later proved that CHOPS is indeed something people use to say mouth.

KEEP RHYTHM WITH MUSIC

BOB

CLAP

SNAP

TAP

Since only eight words were left when we got to the blue