Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 13, 2024 (Puzzle #306)

Some Boomer categories fill out the Saturday categories and if you're not up on 70s music and 30s movies, you might score a loss on today's game. Even with the specific nature of these word combinations, they are at least using pop culture references that can still be found in the zeitgeist today.

One of the best tips for any game of is to utilize the shuffle button right away. There have been a handful of times where the game sets certain words next to others to try and trick your brain into seeing a connection that isn't correct. Using this simple tool that the game provides can break that thought before it has a chance to root into your brain.

Before jumping into spoiler territory with today's answers we wanted to provide the daily categories as a hint to help out. This could be the only thing keeping you away from a proper win.

SEEN AT THE CIRCUS

«THE WIZARD OF OZ» FIGURES

FILM DEPARTMENTS

«I'M A ____» (LYRICS IN «THE JOKER»)

SEEN AT THE CIRCUS

CLOWN

RING

TENT

TRAPEZE

There were some strong Halloween costume vibes mixed into today's game and despite that, we still managed to pull off a win. CLOWN and TRAPEZE were the initial two words that had us thinking 'circus'. TENT was the obvious next step and RING made sense eventually scoring us the yellow category first for today.

«THE WIZARD OF OZ» FIGURES

LION

SCARECROW

WITCH

WIZARD

The LION, the WITCH, and the WARDROBE desperately tried to trick us today, and we absolutely wasted an attempt trying to make that work. Clearly there was no proper fourth match for the three words so we ended up scrapping the whole idea. After a few minutes, we realized where we went wrong. There is absolutely an old-school story connection here in today's game, we were just looking at the wrong story.

SCARECROW and LION kicked off this tornado of a category and the other two pieces quickly fell into place. The 1939 film is a great collection of characters that continue to entertain children to this day.

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