NYT Connections tips and answers today, Thursday, October 23

Need a tip for today’s Connections on Thursday, October 23? It would be nice to complete every Connections puzzle without needing a guide, but it would also be a bit unrealistic, right? We’ll make your mystery life a little easier with some helpful tips.

Of course, this Connections guide also includes the full puzzle solution. Scroll down if you’re looking for answers rather than guidance today.

In this guide:

Here are 16 connection words for today:

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Let’s take another example: “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are words that usually appear right before the word “Figure”.

Your task is to guess what themes connect different words – but be careful, because in most cases there are misleading connections that are only intended to confuse you! To win the game you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in the daily Connection puzzle is also assigned a different color to represent how simple or hard it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (simple), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).

Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!

Connection tip for Thursday, October 23

Here are today’s Connections tips:

• Yellow: “It’s wonderful!”
• Green: Money, free.
• Blue: Search for sports equipment.
• Purple: Add something and you can wear them.
• Bonus tip 1: Every group except green contains a word starting with the letter “S”.
• Bonus tip 2: The kitten and the dog are in different groups.

If you need additional assist, click on the spoiler text below to view one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Swell
• Green: Kitty
• Blue: Puck
• Purple: To go

Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!

What are today’s Connections groups like?

If you need even more guidance to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connection groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid together.

Here are today’s Connections groups:

• Yellow: Velvety
• Green: Win
• Blue: Elements of Olympic equipment
• Purple: ___ Bag

Now that you know the reasoning behind the different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check out the full answer below.

Spoiler alert! The answer to today’s Connections offer is before us!

What’s today’s answer on Connections?

Here is the answer to today’s Connection puzzle, which will take place on Thursday, October 23:

• Yellow: Peachy (Dandy, Ducky, Fine, Swell)
• Green: Winnings (Kitten, Pot, Prize, Purse)
• Blue: Elements of Olympic equipment (ball, birdie, puck, stone)
• Purple: ___ Bag (Dog, Go, Mixed, Booty)

So “duck”, “doggy” and “kitten” are not in the same group? Together with the “bird” they Down make the obvious “animal” theme, but unfortunately…

Apart from “dog”, I had trouble figuring out the meaning of the other three animal words. I’m guessing the “birdie” is supposed to mean a badminton shuttlecock, but I don’t know the term. Apparently, the cash prize in gambling is sometimes referred to as a “kitty” and instead of “everything is going well”, you can say “everything is fine”.

Well, I didn’t know all this and today’s Connection puzzle wasn’t very good, but hey, at least I learned something modern!

Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the assist of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a modern Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!