Today's Connections Hints & Answers For June 15, 2024 (Puzzle #369)

It's Saturday and today's has some easy categories and some less easy. Fans of sportsball might have an easier time today, but as will people with interests in other places as well due to the breadth of the different categories. Keep your wits about you and look at our hints if you need them.

For those who want to wind down from, try playing NYT's puzzles.It's a little less challenging and very satisfying to create an image out of lines you connected. If you want more of a challenge, check out, as you have to guess a single word based on logical deductions and an assortment of letters.

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.

Today's categories have two hobby-based groupings and two categories that are a bit more obscure. One of them focuses on traits of a certain type and one is a typical fill-in-the-blank Purple category.

BASKETBALL SHOTS

FISH

QUALITIES OF THICK HAIR

___ CHILD

BASKETBALL SHOTS

DUNK

FLOATER

LAYUP

THREE

We are not gamers who appreciate sports as well, so this was not the first category we guessed. However, we did recognize that DUNK and LAYUP were basketball terms, and from there it was a matter of guessing which other two words fit. THREE made the most sense, but FLOATER took us a little while to get right.

FISH

PIKE

PERCH

SKATE

SOLE

We may not be fishermen ourselves, but we do have close relatives that are. We knew it absolutely had to be a fishing category, as PIKE, PERCH, and SOLE made a lot of sense together and likely wouldn't be anything else. However, we did have to figure out which other word could also be a fish, which turned out to be SKATE. Which is a little fishy given that a SKATE fish does not have wheels of any kind attached.

Wordle is a simple daily word game that has taken the internet by storm. With only 6 chances to get the right answer, players may need a little help.

QUALITIES OF THICK HAIR

BODY

BOUNCE

LIFT

VOLUME

BOUNCE