Today's Connections Hints & Answers For June 7, 2024 (Puzzle #361)

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Today is officially Friday and it's time to end the work week right by getting that Perfect! streak in . Luckily, with a few tips, it's not hard to get that perfect score today. There are a few odd words that could go in another category, but this has a little less crossover than other recent puzzles and that should make it faster to spot the differences.

is not the only word-based puzzle and it is not even close to the only NYT word-based puzzle. After all the ever-popular ran so could run with it. And that is not even looking back at the daily, present in the old-fashioned newspaper for longer than many of us have been alive. Whatever level your word game is, you can find a game for you.

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For a little nudge from us, you can choose to look at just the categories first before scrolling down to the full-spoiler answers below:

DREAM UP

THIN COVERING

REMOVE, AS CRUMBS

VERBS FOR A SOFTWARE ENGINEER

DREAM UP

CONCEIVE

ENVISION

IMAGINE

PICTURE

Dreaming up is always something to aspire to, and today these words are all similar enough without a lot of extra meanings that made it easier for us to put them together. IMAGINE and ENVISION were the first two words to catch our eyes, but before long CONCEIVE and PICTURE joined the team.

THIN COVERING

COAT

FILM

LAYER

SKIN

This was the last category we guessed today, mostly due to the inclusion of FILM. PICTURE from the last category and FLICK from a future one both felt like they could be movie-related, but when a fourth word did not appear it was fairly clear the other two belonged elsewhere.

However, once we realized that all these words had to do with a top layer of something, it was easier to guess. And at least this category was the ogre-like green one to remind us that they too have layers.

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