NYT Connections Today: Wednesday, July 23 Hints And Answers (#773)

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5 days ago

Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.
Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Tuesday's:
It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another round of Connections!
I'm not sure I timed this trip over to Scotland very well. I'm missing so much fun stuff back in Montreal! The big comedy festival is back after a year off and my favorite film festival is taking place at the same time. I'll be able to catch maybe one Just for Laughs show and perhaps a few screenings at Fantasia, but I really need to time my mid-year visit here better for 2026. I'm waiting for my current favorite band to announce tour dates for next summer first so I don't miss them either. 🤐
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 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's 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 our hints 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...
And the hints for today's Connections groups are:
One Word For Each Connections Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let's take a look at one word for each group.
Today's Connections word hints are…
What Are Today's Connections Groups?
Today's Connections groups are...
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...
Lots of words that end with animals today – TOMAHAWK, GEODUCK, BUGBEAR, ESCROW, SEAHORSE, WOMBAT and TITMOUSE. Of course, some of those are animals themselves. But I felt that there had to be a bit of a red herring going on here.
The four words that form part of the real estate sales process had to go together, I felt. I was a little surprised that those were the blues.
The yellows were up next after I figured out that BUGBEAR was one of 'em. I then suspected that my initial inclination of animals within animals might be a group after all. I tried my luck with those and, hey, I got the purples. That's a little odd for a purple group, but I'll take it (I'm sure tomorrow's will be something like "the third word in Shakespeare plays" to make up for it).
That left the greens. I thought that with PORTERHOUSE and FLATIRON, they might be words that end in the names of Monopoly pieces, but you don't get a hawk in that game. They were actually just kinds of steaks. I knew that a porterhouse was a steak and probably should have been paying more attention to TOMAHAWK, as I might have figured out the group from that.
Anyway, that's win 147 in a row thanks to a perfect game. Here's my grid for this one:
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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. Here's a fun website I heard about a few days ago. On Pointer Pointer, you either tap the screen or move your mouse cursor to the location of your choice. The website will then find a photo of someone who appears to point at the cursor. It's a little unnerving, but I found it entertaining for a few moments.
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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