I'm looking for a connection today. June373's connection answer for puzzle #18 isn't as challenging as it was yesterday, and Connections Companion has rated the difficulty of this puzzle at 3 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, #372, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers are ahead for connection #373. 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 you might be considering in a career or a spy or have seen at least one very. Don't let your first instinct block your way

So what is today's connection answer for game #373.

Drum roll, please.

Today's puzzles, according to the Connection guide, are very ahead in presenting obvious clues that, on the simpler side, should match. 

If you are like me, the casino will catch your eye and you will try to match the casino like things. 

But what really caught my eye were blocks, shields and screens. The cover was at first glance, and the green was my first submission. 

Despite still wants Casino to become things, the yellow category fell into place with power, channels and volume. I didn't want the menu to be the last word, but it was the only one that made sense. Voila, yellow down.

The blue fell quickly after as I saw umbrellas, cherries and olives. But when the cocktail was over, and sometimes before, I remembered that it was fun to poke cherries and olives with a small plastic sword and umbrella. 

It left the Casino of course, Diamond, Quantum and tomorrow. I did not immediately make a James Bond connection, but combining three other categories, I think I will now have my future Bond Movie Marathon

later read this in the time zone. According to Connections Companion, Connections answers in game #3.3 with a difficulty rating of 372 is:

Today's puzzle, I was struggling for a connection answer, the clues would not fit together. It's like that sometimes. 

Soon, I was delivering a package and had yellow almost immediately.  From there I had 3 of the green categories pretty quickly. The problem I struggled with was looking for another word with "lips" before and not retreating to consider what else those 3 things in common are. 

Oddly enough, the word "predicament" never came into my mind to be considered a blue category. For a long time I've been trying to force angles into the mix, but never trust two long words that fall into the same category.  Technically, an angle is usually a union of 2 lines that form a triangular point, so it can be measured in degrees. 

I got the blue category after fixing it to the purple category. Degree of temperature, degree of education. The angle made the most sense and I couldn't fit the crime into the other line.

Sometimes the clue comes easily and it's a refreshing swim, but today the loops that this brain needs to make were of higher order.