Looking for today's Connections answer for Puzzle 430 on August 14, the difficulty of this puzzle from the Connections Companion was 24 out of 5, a slight decrease in difficulty compared to yesterday's answer

We update our Connections clues and hints daily And if the hints are not enough, see the four answers below, along with the category title and related words In addition, for those of you reading this in another time zone, I have included a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #429

There are spoilers for connection #430 Only read this if you want to know the answer to today's connection

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While today's wordle solution guide recommends the best wordle starting words as a strategy, the Connections solution depends on identifying the categories that are connected from the 16 words The difficulty of each category is represented by a color, with yellow being the easiest grouping and purple the most difficult Hints are helpful as the answer is displayed after four wrong guesses

If you need a hint to help you solve the groupings, here are each theme in order of difficulty:

If you read these hints, you should at least be able to find the answer to today's connection If not, please continue reading for larger hints Also, if you only want to know the answer, scroll down further

There is a bigger clue Flowers and the people who help them grow And it is the season of baseball, which has a long, long history

Now for the answer to today's game 430 connection

Drum roll please

Sometimes the trap is more interesting than the answer

I spent a minute trying to find a Disney connection to put Mickey, Daisy, Guff, and maybe Jasmine or Buzz together Obviously it didn't work, and I abandoned this before I could get a strike

Guf gave me gaff, flub, and boo-boo for the yellow blunder

I stuck with Disney and followed the daisies, jasmine, petunias, and poppies

Today I went down the line, which always satisfies me I saw pollination, buzzing, and thread as I put together groups of flowers The dancing reminded me that bees communicate with a series of “dances” to indicate the location of flowers, other bees, and predators Cool

I'm not a Yankees fan, but you should have seen the Yankees legends coming I'm hooked on Disney Meanwhile, good luck Orioles As of this writing, they lead the AL East over the Yankees Here is the Connections solution to game #429, which according to the Connections Companion had a difficulty score of 28 out of 5

I started with the yellow category and looked at the two words in the bottom corner and the last two in the top row: said, spoke, told, voiced good form

Regardless of which category, I was going to make sobriquet next, what a fun word to drop into a puzzle that tends to shy away from $5 words From there, I was quick to find call names, handles, and monikers

I then hooked up the purple category with Porter, Power, Rough, and Wheelhouse To be honest, I didn't realize the connection to the House and worked my way around the blue category in confusion

Marked, prounced, and striking all made sense as connections, but as I solved the grid, I struggled to be clear In a sense, yes, all these words mean obvious This is also my problem with the connection, in that I see what seems to be a colloquial definition before I see a secondary definition In other words, clear was not obvious to me Clear does not apply to it

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