Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Jul 23
Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #773.
Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Wednesday, 23rd July? Connections puzzles are truly captivating… Sometimes, a little too much. If you’d like to do other things besides staring at the wordy puzzle today, this guide may be useful to you.
Hints, theme reveals, small spoilers, or – we won’t blame you – the full Connections answers; scroll down to find all this and more.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Wednesday 23rd July
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Tomahawk | Phantom | Geoduck | Bugbear |
| Escrow | Seahorse | Flatiron | Mortgage |
| Porterhouse | Bogeyman | Appraisal | Wombat |
| Hobgoblin | Titmouse | Chateaubriand | Insurance |
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Wednesday 23rd July
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Look for scary creatures.
- Green: This is a meaty theme.
- Blue: Think about real estate.
- Purple: They’re animals – twice!
- Extra hint 1: Separate creatures from non-creatures, and you already have two complete themes on each side.
- Extra hint 2: You can eat a ‘flat iron’.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Hobgoblin
- Green: Chateaubriand
- Blue: Insurance
- Purple: Seahorse
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Dread-Inducing Figures
- Green: Kinds Of Steaks
- Blue: Related To Buying A Home
- Purple: Animals Ending With Animals
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Wednesday, 23rd July:
- Yellow: Dread-Inducing Figures (Bogeyman, Bugbear, Hobgoblin, Phantom)
- Green: Kinds Of Steaks (Chateaubriand, Flatiron, Porterhouse, Tomahawk)
- Blue: Related To Buying A Home (Appraisal, Escrow, Insurance, Mortgage)
- Purple: Animals Ending With Animals (Geoduck, Seahorse, Titmouse, Wombat)
Although the many creatures in this Connections puzzle were meant to confuse me, I actually found it easier than usual. It did work for a while – I grouped the full purple theme together with ‘escrow’, ‘bugbear’, and ‘tomahawk’, but I started noticing the differences shortly after.
It certainly helped that the real estate words, besides escrow, were very different from the rest. Whereas the green theme contained ‘two-in-one’ words, blue ones like ‘insurance’ or ‘appraisal’ are just that – ‘buy a home’ words.
As I noticed the distinction between real animals and fantasy creatures, it wasn’t too difficult for me to separate the bogeymen and hobgoblins from the rest. With just eight words left, dropping ‘tomahawk’ from the ‘hidden animals’ theme was suddenly a lot easier. I didn’t recognize the other steak names as such (not a meat expert), but luckily, I didn’t need to.
