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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 23 (game #682).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #683) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- CORNFIELD
- ICEBERG
- BUTTER
- MILK
- BABY POWDER
- SCARECROW
- PITCHERS
- POLAR BEAR
- PENGUIN
- LEAF
- MUSICIANS
- BANE
- WALLS
- SNOW
- JOKER
- ROMAINE
NYT Connections today (game #683) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: A color in common
- GREEN: Eat your greens
- BLUE: Enemies of the Caped Crusader
- PURPLE: What you hear with
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #683) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE WHITE
- GREEN: KINDS OF LETTUCE
- BLUE: “BATMAN” VILLAINS
- PURPLE: THEY HAVE LITERAL/ IDIOMATIC EARS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #683) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #683, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE WHITE BABY POWDER, MILK, POLAR BEAR, SNOW
- GREEN: KINDS OF LETTUCE BUTTER, ICEBERG, LEAF, ROMAINE
- BLUE: “BATMAN” VILLAINS BANE, JOKER, PENGUIN, SCARECROW
- PURPLE: THEY HAVE LITERAL/ IDIOMATIC EARS CORNFIELD, MUSICIANS, PITCHERS, WALLS
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
After a brief dalliance trying to create a group with a cold climate as the common thread, I went for ICEBERG lettuce rather than the iceberg that has fallen off a glacier.
BUTTER and ROMAINE I was familiar with, but I gambled that LEAF was a variety. There are so many lettuce types to choose from. And let’s face it none of them are particularly interesting.
There are also lots of THINGS THAT ARE WHITE to choose from – plenty of WALLS are white, including ones that have ears. Sorry, I’ll rephrase that – even walls that have “idiomatic ears”.
I originally paired SCARECROW with CORNFIELD before seeing the other more famous “BATMAN” VILLAINS.
This is another group with a huge cast to pick from. Bruce Wayne surely has more enemies than any other fictional character – the WIkipedia page “List of batman family enemies” contains well over 200.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, April 23, game #682)
- 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
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
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