NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Apr 23

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Sunday 27th April!

Need a hint for today's Connections on Wednesday, 23rd April? If the Connections answers seem out of reach, this guide will give you a little push. Trust us; a small hint can go a long way in this theme-guessing puzzle.

Besides hints, this guide also provides the full Connections answer and explains today’s puzzle. Feel free to scroll straight down if that’s what you’re after.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Wednesday 23rd April
• What are today's Connections groups?
• What are today's Connections answers?

Here are the 16 Connections 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 (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 April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: As seen in nature.
• Green: Think of feline anatomy.
• Blue: These words are funny in a performative way.
• Purple: Find one word to extend every group member.
• Extra hint 1: None of the themes contain two or more words starting with the same letter.
• Extra hint 2: The purple theme is the only one with just three- and four-letter words.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow:Root
• Green:Tail
• Blue:Act
• Purple:Flag

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: Parts Of A Tree
• Green: Canine/Feline Features
• Blue: Comedic Routine
• Purple: ___Pole

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 April:

• Yellow: Parts Of A Tree (Branch, Leaf, Root, Trunk)
• Green: Canine/Feline Features (Fur, Muzzle, Paw, Tail)
• Blue: Comedic Routine (Act, Bit, Gag, Sketch)
• Purple: ___Pole (Bean, Flag, May, Tad)

Perhaps I've played too many video games because I couldn't get past the 'part of a gun' meaning of muzzle for quite some time. Only when I grouped the other three feline body parts together did I realise there had to be a fourth one, and it couldn't be anything other than muzzle.

In line with its yellow colour, the tree theme was the simplest for me today. Blue wasn't that much harder, but I did initially think of drawing and throwing up when I saw 'sketch' and 'gag'. I also got distracted by 'bit' and 'tad', but was able to drop this false connection in the absence of a third and fourth group member.

I never solved the purple theme as I didn't have to anymore, but I'd say it was the hardest of today's themes. I hope you didn't get stuck on that one!

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!