Are you looking for an answer to today's connections? The June378 Connect answer for puzzle #23 is much more complex than yesterday's puzzle, and the Connect Companion will rate the difficulty of this puzzle at 3.5 out of 5.

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, #377, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers are ahead for connection #378. Read only if you want to know the answer for today's connection.  

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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: Today's puzzle can take you back to your childhood of staying home from sick school and watching "The price is right.""While you're at it, think back to the kind of geography and biology lessons you learned at the time. "Mitochondria are the driving force of cells" type of trivia.  

So what is the answer for today's connection for game #378?

Drum roll, please...

Maybe it's because I'm based near Chicago, but I understood the purple category almost immediately. Magic, motor, sin, and windy represent the cities of Miami, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Chicago, respectively. Although I admit that I had to find out exactly what the city of Florida was holding the magical title. 

The green category was a bit hard to figure out because Chill threw me for a loop. But if I saw a cough and a cold, the rest fell into place. 

As for the yellow category, I was the pain of my parents behind enough time to recognize those resentful callouts: easy, enough, quiet, relaxed.

It quickly filled the blue, but I wouldn't have thought the category was that specific. I was thinking more along the lines of marine mammals, perhaps whales, but no: humpback whales. I like to argue that many other whales are also singing, exhaling, diving and violating, but I admit that I'm splitting my hair. This is a fun fact, what their teeth are made of (keratin)!

Are you reading this in a later time zone? According to Connections Companion, Connections answers in game #1.7 with a difficulty rating of 377 is:

Saturday's puzzle was fun filled with summer staples, from hitting the greens to catching baseball games and watching blockbusters. 

My colleague Scott discovered the purple category almost immediately, as brat, dog, Frank and Link all make for a good time in the summer.

The outdoor-themed stay made it a cinch for drivers, iron, wedges and trees to quickly jump out and grab the green category.

The yellow category was a bit tricky because the word series looked like an outlier compared to more closely related words like chain, train, and string. 

Then the blue became rotefil. Regardless of how quickly the other 3 categories were properly classified, he initially did not notice the themes of horror films that connect birds, fog, omens and rings.