Today's Connections Answers & Hints For February 21, 2024 (Puzzle #254)

There's a new puzzle available and today's answers shouldn't be too hard for most players. has players grouping different sets of words without knowing what category they all actually fit into. The Wednesday categories aren't too difficult to figure out, but if you're having trouble we've posted the hints and answers below.

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Before fully spoiling today's answers we wanted to provide the categories for today's game.

Pesters

Tony Winners For Best Musical

They Have Keys

School of _____

If that wasn't enough to help you solve today's Connections, here are the fully spoiled answers in order of most straightforward to trickiest, based on the game's information page.

Pesters

Badgers

Bugs

Hounds

Nags

A simple enough category with BADGERS and NAGS grabbing our attention right away. The other two words quickly fell into place.

Tony Winners For Best Musical

Annie

Cabaret

Cats

Company

These are some of the most famous musicals around and easy to pick out of a crowd, despite the CATS/animal connection with other words.

They Have Keys

Computer

Piano

Super

Tests

This one really threw us off as SUPERS didn't quite make sense in our heads, but of course we ended up scoring it due to other eleminations.

School of _____

Fish

Hard Knocks

Rock

Thought

FISH and ROCK really led the charge with this category, the others weren't too difficult to score after a bit of thinking.