Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For June 17, 2024 (Puzzle #371)

Making Connections can be challenging, but with the right hints it can be a lot easier. Today there are a lot of words that seem small and disconnected, and a few odd words out with many syllables. As with most Connections games, there are times when this is helpful and times when they are not. With enough patience and perhaps some help, you can finish this puzzle and keep your streak alive.

Once you have finished today’s Connections puzzle, it is entirely possible that you would like to play something a little more traditional. The NYT also offers a Mini Crossword puzzle every day for free so that you can get your nostalgia fix in a bite-sized form daily. And while other app-based Crosswords exist, this one actually does come from a newspaper for bonus nostalgia points.

Today’s Connections Category Hints

JUNE 17 #371

Sending out mail is one of the more traditional ways to make Connections with other humans, but for those who just want to make word connections, here are the categories for today:

Today’s Connections Answers

JUNE 17 #371

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one stood out right away as soon as we saw MAIL and POST. There was a day when we all feared never receiving physical mail again, but now all the mail carriers that survived are out as people SEND and SHIP packages from their favorite online stores all over the world. This is good, because receiving something I bought instills the fun of opening packages into otherwise monotonous mail days.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category was also fairly clear, but perhaps might not be as clear to more masculine friends. BALM smoothens your lips, GLOSS makes them shiny, LINER makes them stand out and STAIN keeps them one color for a very long time. The real trick is not licking the more flavorful lip glosses off your lips because mom always said that was bad for your stomach.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you are in a SPOT of a bother, or a HOLE you need to dig yourself out of, you are likely in a bit of a FIX or a tight CORNER. The English language has a lot of different words for being in trouble, as it turns out. Perhaps that speaks more to how we got to this point or how penchant we are for trouble than we would particularly like.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one was a little tricky but having only the leftover words left made it simpler. It also felt fairly clear that CRIME and TEMPERATURE did not fit with any other words, although ANGLE might fit with HOLE and LINER in more specific contexts. That left EDUCATION, which is itself in a fix, but otherwise only really fit with these otherwise misfit words.

Other Games Like Connections

Once you are done solving Connections and having a crisis about the state of the mail delivery system, calm yourself down by playing a new browser-based game from the table below: