I'm looking for a connection today. 6/20 The Connections answers for puzzle #375 has a huge jump in difficulty compared to yesterday, and Connections Companion rated the puzzle's difficulty out of 5 out of 3.5 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, #374, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers are ahead for connection #375. 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: Today's puzzle requires you to vote with groups or perhaps read certain things. If not, a large group of items could lead 1 towards the next lover.

So, what is today's connection answer in game #375.

Drum roll, please.

After yesterday's refreshing end, Thursday will come and you will eat a little bit of humble pie, or at least I did. 

Soon, I had a yellow category with nails, screws, and nuts. My first guess was a strike because I had a bolt instead of a washing machine. This was the theme of the day.

Immediately after the green category stood out. Flies, hooks and sinkers were quickly discovered. Again, replaced with a rod instead of a line. Hit two out of four. I may have tried to keep the rod around longer than I should have, but usually something to swap jumps out quickly

when I got the dryer, the mirror and the sink I wasn't thinking about the hair salon. The only reason I tried the chair was because it didn't fit the other categories I was looking at. 

Getting blue fills purple quickly and I wasn't surprised by Bolt, bug, rod, Strike answers. I was looking for a golf related game, but I don't know why that connection is what I wanted. That said, I was very bothered by the rod. I continue to be annoyed by the rod. 

Read this later in the time zone. According to Connections Companion, Connections answers in game #2.8 with a difficulty rating of 374 is:

I don't know if yesterday and today have soothed how difficult I found Monday's puzzle, but this puzzle has time for me to think about it

The yellow category is pretty easy and there are 4 words that mean yes. But I actually saw the green category first. I tend to take the "Magic Eye puzzle" approach to my first look at the word. So the court and the date jumped out at me. Maybe it's all Bridgerton going around. Wu and Shi fell quickly.

I loved getting purple early and the way the board shifted after getting the first two categories dropped Tarot and palm right next to it. I was thinking about "reading" and immediately found the aura and tea.

I'm not sure if I got the blue category if it wasn't the last four words. I see connections between what they represent in today's puzzle, but I didn't even connect them until the end when I really saw any of those words as a possibility in other categories.