I'm looking for a connection today. Connections answers in Puzzle #6/24/379 is easier than yesterday's puzzle, and Connections Companion has rated the puzzle's difficulty out of 5 out of 3.

Every day we update this article with connection tips and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers. If the hint is not enough, you can find all the 4 answers below, with words that correlate with the title of the category. Additionally, it includes reflections on yesterday's puzzle, #378, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers are ahead for connection #379. Read only if you want to know the answer for today's connection.  

Also see How to Play NYT Connect Guide for tips on how to solve puzzles without our help.

Unlike our guide to Wordle answers today we recommend the best Wordle Start word as your strategy, solving the connection relies on identifying the category to connect between 16 words. The difficulty of each category is represented by color, yellow is the easiest grouping and purple is the most challenging. If you make 4 mistakes in your guess, the tips may help, as the answer will be revealed.

If you need tips for solving grouping, here are the themes for each based on the order of difficulty:

These tips should get at least some of the ways to find the answers connected today. Or scroll further down if you just want to know the answer.

Here's a bigger tip: What today's puzzle sounds like when spoken out loud, specific colors dripping into many common phrases,

So, what is today's connection answer in game #379.

Drum roll, please.

Maybe it's because I just ate lunch, but it only took a few seconds to parse the green category. The word "meat" feels like a red herring to distract from the "main" and "side", both of which have multiple meanings, but only 1 that seamlessly enters with something like a dessert or starter. 

The yellow category was another quick fill. Raw and soft things have enough in common to put them together from the bat (but once again, "meat" made me guess myself second). Plucking that thread further, I realized that sensitive was not too far from either. 

Blue and purple are where I began to fumble violently. Today's purple category is all the words linked to a common color. Red meat, red carpet and red tape are common enough, but red delicious, the name for a particular kind of apple, is not so common. Or is it an outlier because I don't have enough preference to know the apple variety by name. 

There is one word in the blue category that I have a personal beef. It is full of homonyms, or words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings related to animals. The bear (bear) and dear (deer) are clever, and because it really threw me, I began to pass it to the Times for the moose (moose). But new. What is new in the name of God? Well, dear readers, after a quick Google search, I learned that gnu is another name for wildebeest. But I'm still going to hold fast to my grudge, thank you. The next time you look at gnu, it is visible. 

Read this later in the time zone. According to Connections Companion, Connections answers in game #3.5 where the difficulty rating was 5 out of 378:

Sunday's puzzle was a trip down Memory Lane. The green category brought up memories of staying sick at home like a child watching the price be right with disease-related words like bugs, cold, cold and cough.

Staying on that theme, the yellow category was full of indignant blowouts that I remember all too well since I grew up: easy, enough, quiet, and relaxed.

Blue brought about a long-forgotten biological fact in words about what humpback whales do (i.e., they're not the same as humpback whales). (You can also play with your friends, break, dive, sing, and squirt). 

Then Purple brought us home and crossed America in monikers in famous cities like magic, motor, sin and windy.