Todays Connections puzzle from February 14, 2024, features four categories with unique themes. Heres a summary of the solutions:　　- **Yellow Category TOUCH LIGHTLY**: This group consists of words that describe gentle or light physical contact or movement: BRUSH, GRAZE, KISS, and SKIM.　　- **Green Category TYPES OF NUMBERS**: The green category includes different classifications of numbers: ODD not even, PERFECT numbers whose divisors sum to the number itself, PRIME having only two distinct positive divisors: 1 and itself, and WHOLE positive integers including zero.　　- **Blue Category SAUCES IN CHINESE CUISINE**: This set comprises popular sauces in Chinese cooking: OYSTER sauce, PLUM sauce, SOY sauce, and XO sauce a spicy seafood sauce made with dried shrimp and scallops.　　- **Purple Category BEAR ____**: In this hardest grouping, each word has the word bear as part of its meaning but used differently: CLAW as in bear claw, referring to an animal paw or a pastry, FRUIT in the context of to bear fruit, meaning to produce fruit, HUG as in bear hug, a strong embrace, and WITNESS with the idiom to bear witness, which means to give evidence or testimony.　　To solve the puzzle effectively, it is essential to think outside the box and consider multiple meanings for each word, especially when dealing with wordplay or fill-in-the-blank clues where a word might function as both a noun and a verb.