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Sunday's NYT Connections puzzle challenged players with body-part decoys across four groups. The answers were stealing slang, pasta shapes, fictional Toms and things that can be snapped.

Saturday's Wordle answer is HOLEY, a five-letter adjective describing something full of gaps or openings. It sounds like "holy" and "wholly", creating a spelling trap.

The New York Times Connections puzzle No. 1231 challenged players to sort 16 words into groups involving strips, sticks, online ads and "bar" phrases.

Friday's Wordle answer is TRILL, a music-related word made more difficult by its single vowel, repeated final letter and several similar possible guesses.

Friday's NYT Connections puzzle features groups linked to forthright personality traits, computer software, physics quantities and phrases formed by adding "tap".

Steam users reported brief connection and access problems early Friday, but independent monitoring services later showed the platform operating normally, with no evidence of a prolonged global outage.

Thursday's NYT Strands puzzle, themed "Any relation?", challenges players to find family-related words, including the spangram FAMILYTIES and five hidden theme answers.

The New York Times' Wordle puzzle No. 1951 was RESET, a familiar five-letter word made trickier by its repeated E, common letter pattern and competing possibilities.

Thursday's NYT Connections puzzle challenged players to sort 16 words into groups involving objects, museum sculptures, American football positions and wordplay-based bedding terms.

Wordle No. 1950 challenges players to find PENNY, a money-related word with a repeated letter and only one standard vowel, making it moderately difficult.

The New York Times' Connections No. 1228 features children's games, influential-person nicknames, famous paintings and misleading names, with hints, strategy advice and full answers provided.

The New York Times' Connections puzzle for Tuesday, 20 October 2026, challenges players to identify four groups, including moustache styles and Disney character homophones.

Tuesday's Wordle is WREST, a five-letter verb with a silent W and one vowel. Hints, strategy advice and recent answers are provided for puzzle No. 1949.

NYT Connections puzzle No. 1226 challenges players to group words tied to anger, empty talk, McDonald's menu items and hidden bird names before revealing the answers.

The New York Times' Monday puzzles include Wordle No. 1948, answered by STINK, and Connections No. 1226, whose groups feature anger, empty talk, McDonald's items and hidden birds.

NYT Connections No. 1225 features furniture, stick-shaped products, famous perfumes and hidden weather-related words. Here are the hints, traps and complete answers for Sunday's puzzle.

Wordle No. 1947 is ADORN, a moderately difficult five-letter puzzle answer. Hints, gameplay guidance, the previous solution and recent answers are included for players.

Unconfirmed industry estimates reportedly put PlayStation 6 memory and storage costs above $680 per unit, as AI-related demand drives sharp increases in DRAM and NAND prices.

NYT Connections Puzzle No. 1224 challenges players to sort 16 words into groups covering digital notifications, photographs, crabs and culturally significant names beginning with "La".

Wordle No. 1946 is GAFFE, a noun describing an embarrassing social mistake. Hints, strategy advice and recent answers are included for players tackling Saturday's puzzle.

NYT Connections puzzle No. 1223 challenges players with surface imperfections, landlocked countries, altered European names and words beginning with terms meaning fashionable.

Friday's NYT games include Wordle No. 1945, whose answer is SHADY, and Connections No. 1223, featuring landlocked countries, missing-letter clues and spelling traps.

The New York Times' Connections puzzle No. 1222 challenges players with misleading sports links before revealing groups about food preservation, scoring, low points and landforms.

Wordle No. 1944 is a moderately challenging puzzle featuring DUNCE, a five-letter noun with historical links to the pointed 'dunce cap' once used as classroom punishment.

NYT Connections puzzle No. 1221 challenges players to group words linked to subtle meanings, tennis shots, superheroes and the "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum" chant.

The New York Times' Wordle No. 1943 answer is PSYCH, an unusual five-letter word without standard vowels. The puzzle is rated moderately easy at 3.8 guesses.

Published revenue, download and traffic figures put the United States and Japan at the top of Pokémon popularity measures, although no official global ranking exists.

NYT Connections puzzle No. 1220 features 16 words that form groups related to discernment, fastening, sports championship prizes and phrases beginning with "loose".

Wordle Puzzle No. 1942 challenges players with a comparison-themed adjective. Here are progressive hints, starting-word advice, gameplay strategies and the answer: WIDER.