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The New York Times' Connections game offers a daily word puzzle challenge, testing players with logic, wordplay, and critical thinking. Puzzle #586, released on January 17, pushed players to ...

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid ...

Well it’s my last day writing these Strands guides for the next couple of weeks, so I must bid you all adieu for the nonce. It’s been a fun week of puzzle-solving, though a lot of these have ...

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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 ...