Today's Connections Hints & Answers For March 31, 2024 (Puzzle #293)

Sunday always seems to have some of the more difficult selections of and this week's categories help prove that theory correct. Our daily loss is your gain though as we still unlocked the categories and can help guide others who may be in danger of losing their streak.

If today's game was too easy for you, perhaps try something a little more challenging. is a copycat that forces players to solve four different five-letter words at the same time. Sharing hints and attempts between four puzzles can be a very difficult, but ultimately rewarding, experience.

Before moving on to the fully spoiled answers we wanted to provide a few hints in the form of today's categories.

TAKE A TUMBLE

KINDS OF WATER

THINGS THAT ARE CINCHED IN THE MIDDLE

___ BEAR

TAKE A TUMBLE

FALL

SLIP

TRIP

SPILL

Overall, we lost today's because sometimes it's just easy to get caught up in incorrect pairings. We did however score the yellow category before wasting away all our attempts. SPILL and SLIP led the charge on today's tumbling category, followed by FALL and TRIP. It's always easy to look back at a failure and realize where you could have adjusted.

KINDS OF WATER

MINERAL

SPRING

STILL

TAP

SPRING tricked us into matching with the previous category's FALL as possible seasons. Then we leaned hard into STILL and SPILL because they rhymed, I guess. I'm not sure where we were going with that. Either way, we did end up scoring today's green category, but it was our last win of the day. We just ended up spending too many guesses on fruitless attempts. TAP and MINERAL ended up breaking us away and helped us see the rest of the watery words.

THINGS THAT ARE CINCHED IN THE MIDDLE

CORSET

DIABOLO

HOURGLASS

WASP

When I was a kid I wanted a DIABOLO so bad, I also had no idea they were called DIABOLOs. I can't recall the exact place I saw it, but I remember a video of someone using one and making it flip and jump off of the string, I was enamored immediately. I never did get one, but one year my