I'm looking for a connection today. June374's Connect answer for puzzle #19 should be a bit easier than Tuesday's puzzle, and the Connect Companion has rated the difficulty of this puzzle at 2.8 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, #373, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers are ahead for connection #374. 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 #374.

Drum roll, please.

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.  

Read this later in the time zone. According to Connections Companion, game #373 had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.

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 almost immediately had a yellow color.  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.