Need a tip for today’s Connections on Thursday, January 23? Between undiscovered word relationships and American trivia, Connections’ puzzles are truly challenging, and you have to wonder how the good people at The New York Times manage to come up with such head-scratchers.
However, there are few things to consider until it’s time to actually solve these challenges. This is where we come into play. The guide below contains everything you need to know to crack the code of today’s Connections.
In this guide:
Here are 16 connection words for today:
| Better | Blanket | Satchel | Pagan |
| Broaden | Cooler | Whip | Smarter |
| Basket | Eclipse | Bomber | Gear |
| Peak | Fedora | Exceed | Vixen |
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 day’s 16 words 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 uncomplicated or hard it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (uncomplicated), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).
Connection tip for Thursday, January 23
Here are today’s Connections tips:
- Yellow: Different ways to say you are better than someone else.
- Green: If you want to eat food in the park, you can take these tools with you.
- Blue: An archaeologist wears them.
- Purple: Think of celebrated US presidents. Now think about rhymes.
- Bonus tip 1: Pagan and Vixen are in the same group.
- Bonus tip 2: Bomber refers to a jacket.
If you need additional aid, click on the spoiler text below to view one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Peak
- Green: Cooler
- Blue: Satchel
- Purple: Pagan
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: Outbid
- Green: Picnic accessories
- Blue: Indiana Jones Costume Parts
- Purple: Rhymes with the names of US presidents
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, January 23:
- Yellow: You will surpass (better, eclipse, surpass, mountain)
- Green: Picnic accessories (basket, blanket, cooler, dishes)
- Blue: Indiana Jones costume parts (bomber, fedora, bag, whip)
- Purple: Rhymes with the names of US presidents (Pagan, Smarter, Vixen, Widen)
I’d say today’s Connections is of medium to high difficulty. There are many confusing elements here, starting with the Yellow group. For example, “eclipse” reminds me of the moon, but here we are talking about a verb, not a noun. The same goes for “Top”. It took me a while to sort through all the options – never a good sign when it comes to a supposedly uncomplicated Yellow group!
Finding picnic supplies and parts of an Indiana Jones costume (I love those movies) was much easier. However, deciphering the names of American presidents and the very specific rhymes accompanying their names was painful. I hope the tips I gave above helped save you some pain because even though I grew up in America, I was completely lost here.
If you’re wondering which word goes with which president, we have “Pagan” Ronald Reagan, “Wiser” Jimmy Carter, “Vixen” Richard Nixen, and “Widen” Joe Biden. What a great bunch of guys.
Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the aid 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!
