Clues, Answers For Wednesday, April 23

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ForbesNYT Connections Hints And Answers For Tuesday, April 22By Kris Holt

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!

I like to see the positive side of things as much as possible. It’s always more fun to enjoy things wholeheartedly than to dunk on them. Being enthusiastic is cool, actually.

But there are certain things I don’t like at all, and that includes some songs. I’ve never been able to put my finger on why this is the case, but “Birdhouse In Your Soul” by They Might Be Giants is one of my least-favorite tracks.

There are lots of genuinely repugnant songs in the world, and this one isn’t anything like those. Broadly speaking, it’s inoffensive. I have nothing against They Might be Giants.

But there’s just nothing sonically I can get onboard with here. The song used to come on the radio all the time in the convenience store where I had my first job and I always changed the channel when it did.

I didn’t expect to lead off the column with so much hater energy today, but sometimes the thoughts appear and I just have to go with ’em, you know?

Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for NYT Connections and this column on Discord. We have a great little community over there and we chat about more than NYT games. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot.

It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up since I don’t look at the comments or Twitter much.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 23, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• BEAN
• GAG
• TRUNK
• MUZZLE
• TAIL
• MAY
• ACT
• PAW
• TAD
• BIT
• ROOT
• SKETCH
• BRANCH
• FLAG
• FUR
• LEAF

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — like bark and sap
• Green group — you’ll see ’em on your furry friends
• Blue group — S.N.L. staples
• Purple group — celestial and fishing would fit in here

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are…

• Yellow group — parts of a tree
• Green group — canine/feline features
• Blue group — comedic routine
• Purple group — _____pole

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — parts of a tree (BRANCH, LEAF, ROOT, TRUNK)
• Green group — canine/feline features (FUR, MUZZLE, PAW, TAIL)
• Blue group — comedic routine (ACT, BIT, GAG, SKETCH)
• Purple group — _____pole (BEAN, FLAG, MAY, TAD)

That’s now 57 wins in a row for me. Here’s how I fared:

🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

A regular ol’ rainbow for me this time around. A pretty easy one, I thought. That’s not ideal for #content and giving me something to work with in terms of spelling out my thought process in an interesting few paragraphs, but hey, the game is like that sometimes.

TRUNK could have gone with animal-related words like PAW, FUR and TAIL. But nope, like the rest of the yellows, it is a part of a tree. MUZZLE, naturally, went with the greens.

SKETCH made the purples clear as day and the purple connection was straightforward too.

So, uh, that’s it I guess! This iced tea I got for free with my grocery order that I’m having right now is pretty good, so that’s something I can talk about. Oh wait, I can just wrap this bit up and get on with the recommendation.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.

P.S. I feel obligated to balance out the hater energy of today’s intro by bringing you one of my favorite songs of all time as a recommendation. I think the first time I heard “Us” by Regina Spektor was in an ad, though I was aware of her before that.

This is obscenely beautiful. It can be interpreted in a number of ways. Some see it as a love song, others believe it references Stalin and Lenin (when she was a child, Spektor and her family fled the Soviet Union). In any case, it often makes me tear up.

I’ve long had the image in my head of this playing over a specific shot at the end of a movie. Maybe I’ll make that film someday. In the meantime, I’ll continue to love this song with every fiber of my being:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!

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