Are you looking for an answer to today's connections? The 525/11/17 connection answer for Puzzle # is more difficult than yesterday's puzzle, and the Connection companion has rated the difficulty of this puzzle at 5 out of 3.3.

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

Spoilers are ahead for connection #524. 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: Form your group of tight friends and take a knee while apologizing for your favorite punctuation.

So what is the answer for today's connection for game #525?

Drum roll, please...

It was an exciting adventure filled because I don't usually do a connection guide. I grasped that a few words were based around a team or group and almost effortlessly locked into the first category today. It turns out that it is close enough "alliance".

From there, I was a bit puzzled before noticing the fact that "clinging" is associated with other tight things. From there, I connected "Sleek" and "Snug" to "Clingy", but I had to think a bit about Slinky.

From there, I fell apart and made the wrong puzzle. I had to rely on the answer and the connection companion to find a guide.

In retrospect, the use of "What an apostrophe is" was very clever at the final level, and I wanted to discover the link but appreciate the effort that went into the puzzle. The same applies to the kneeling part of the puzzle, but I feel like I could have caught it if I had spent a little more time.

Are you reading this in a later time zone? According to Connections Companion, game #524 had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.

I was pressed for time today and jumped on a potential Marvel character group to start. Strike One

Going forward from there, I saw a pillbox with a snapback that I knew was a hat, so Darby with a beret to round the green quartet

Gator (Florida) and early (Oklahoma) strikeouts as college mascots and Wolverines. They took me to Varin (Michigan) and Volunteer (Tennessee). I did a strike trying to put a banana in front of a volunteer, but I was thinking of a banana slug in UC Santa Cruz.

I wasn't looking for a purple group, but when I was reading the remaining 8 words, I said "go rogue" to myself and that group clicked. From there it became "Go bananas", "Go commando" and "Go Figure".

Left a yellow category of things that prevent leakage with caps, covers, plugs and seals.