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

Today's 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.

Once you have finished unraveling purple's mighty schemes, you can attempt a different kind of puzzle with the NYT's game. This game allows you to make connections in a different way, as you instead connect the dots and create a beautiful picture out of them. It feels very relaxing and easy to do, so it is a good way to wind down from the more complex

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

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

«SETTLE DOWN!»

EASY

ENOUGH

QUIET

RELAX

It is EASY to RELAX with a game of, 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.

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.

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!

WHAT