Are you looking for an answer to today's connections? The Connections answers on June22for puzzle#377 is less complex than yesterday's puzzle, and Connections Companion has rated the puzzle's difficulty out of 5 out of 1.7 points.

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

Spoilers are ahead for connection #377. 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 might make you hungry for a ballpark staple, or perhaps a walk on the greens. Of course, you can group some items together or take it easy on a movie night.

So what is the answer for today's connection for game #377?

Drum roll, please...

Perhaps I was hungry when I started this puzzle, but I discovered the purple category almost immediately. Brat, dog, Frank and link all summer good time. Maybe I'll get a hot link with some onions today, I'll say pamper myself this hot weekend.

Perhaps staying in that outdoor mood is what made it a cinch to grab the green category, with drivers, iron, wedges and trees popping right out.

The yellow category took the squash longer to grab, but that's because the "series" didn't feel any kind with chains, trains or strings. I wanted another word out there, an actual one instead of an explanation.

Then the blue became Roto-fill. The other 3 categories fell very quickly, so I didn't notice the themes of birds, fog, omens and rings until I reached the last 4 words. But it's a nice one and a neat little capper.

Are you reading this in a later time zone? According to Connections Companion, game #376 had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.

Friday got weird with a category title that felt like a full sentence.

I admit that the trick of including Rumpelstiltskin got me after I immediately knocked down an amusement park ride. I saw it and combo it with Cinderella and David and Goliath while looking for a fairy-tale connection. I did a strike on that thing to see when there was no obvious one.

That said, the leap from the underdog and rags to wealth and I saw stories coming from behind shortly afterwards.

The shortest category title was pretty simple from there. Everything was giving the go-ahead.

The purple category was purple. I don't think I'd ever made that connection naturally if it weren't for the last four available words. I get it, tail, ass, ass, bump? Bumps are not what I got, I think I've never heard someone describe the Gluteus maximus as bumps unless it's flatter than cardboard You learn new slang every day.