Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For June 23, 2024 (Puzzle #377)

Today’s Connections puzzle is, luckily, a little easier than yesterday and provides a few fun categories. Of course, that fully depends on what you know, as yesterday would have likely been easier for golf fans. For today, there are more synonym-based categories along with some usual purple category shenanigans.

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Today’s Connections Category Hints

JUNE 23 #377

Breaching for Connections Categories on June 23

Breaching the surface will require you to have an understanding of the various categories for today’s puzzle. For those who just want a hint, here are all four categories without any answers:

	“SETTLE DOWN!”
	MINOR AILMENTS
	WHAT HUMPBACK WHALES DO
	___ CITY NICKNAMES

Today’s Connections Answers

JUNE 23 #377

Diving for Connections Answers on June 23

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

“SETTLE DOWN!”

EASY	ENOUGH	QUIET	RELAX

It is EASY to RELAX with a game of Connections, and a QUIET room is the best place to play it. However, we guessed ENOUGH more because CHILL had already been taken in our playthrough, and we were not entirely sure what to replace it with. As it turned out, instead of being a category about synonyms for RELAX, it was about telling people to be done.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

MINOR AILMENTS

BUG	CHILL	COLD	COUGH

CHILL threw us off for a little while, but BUG, COLD, and COUGH all went together enough that we guessed CHILL because it is sometimes used in that sense. We still feel it would fit better in the SETTLE DOWN! category, but it can belong here just as well. Completing this category first made it easier to get the other ones without as many problems.

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

WHAT HUMPBACK WHALES DO

BREACH	DIVE	SING	SPOUT

This category was a whale of a time, and by that we mean it was so much fun. We loved seeing all the whale words and working out if they really went together or not. BREACH cued us in the most, as did SPOUT, and after that, it felt like only DIVE and SING could go here, despite the last category trying to change our minds on that.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

___ CITY NICKNAMES

MAGIC	MOTOR	SIN	WINDY

Having at the very least lived in or consistently passed through many of these cities it was a bit embarrassing that we relied on the last category bonus for solving this one. However, it worked out well and helped us not make a fatal mistake. MAGIC and WINDY do not feel like they go together, but they were on my radar from the beginning. MOTOR and SIN were a bit harder, not having heard them in a while, but we figured it out.

Other Games Like Connections

Once you have gone down the internet whale rabbit tame and watched the Sea World documentary, you should check out the other word-based games in the table below: