All articles tagged with #puzzles
Mashable’s Wordle hub reveals the May 25, 2026 answer: VISIT — a 5-letter word starting with V with two I’s — and offers hints and tips for solving it, plus a quick history of Wordle and its variants.
Mashable breaks down NYT Connections #1075 (May 21, 2026), explaining how the daily puzzle works (16 words arranged into four color-coded groups) and sharing both hints and the final answers. The article lists the category hints (Yellow: Dessert; Green: Things associated with butts; Blue: Tennis scoring terms; Purple: Mustard) and then reveals the solutions: kinds of pies – CHESS, PECAN, PUMPKIN, SHOOFLY; things associated with butts – CABOOSE, CAN, MOON, PEACHT; tennis scoring terms – ADVANTAGE, DEUCE, FORTY, LOVE; mustard – COLONEL, HONEY, HOT, YELLOW. It also notes you can skip to the end for the answers if you prefer to solve first.
Mashable breaks down NYT Connections #1074 for May 20, 2026, explaining how the game works (16 words, four color-coded groups) and revealing today’s solutions across the four categories: Yellow—Stove knob settings (HIGH, MEDIUM, OFF, SIMMER); Green—Potency (CONCENTRATION, FORCE, INTENSITY, MIGHT); Blue—Music theory concepts (INTERVAL, KEY, MODE, SCALE); Purple—“___ Day” movies (GROUNDHOG, INDEPENDENCE, THE LONGEST, TRAINING). The piece also offers general hints and strategies and notes you can shuffle the board and that players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.
Mashable walks you through NYT Connections #1073 (May 19, 2026) with category hints and the four solution groups: Things babies do (BABBLE, CRY, NURSE, TEETHE); Modify deceptively (ALTER, COOK, DOCTOR, FUDGE); Judy Blume books (BLUBBER, DEENIE, FOREVER, SUPERFUDGE); Fish minus a letter (FOUNDER, SALON, SURGEON, TROT).
Defector launches its weekly crosswords with “The Crossword, May 11: She’s A Rainbow,” a puzzle by Kelsey Dixon edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. The piece highlights Dixon’s background, notes the Defector-AVCX partnership for crosswords, and invites puzzle submissions as part of the Monday puzzle series.
CNET provides hints and the full solutions for the New York Times Connections puzzle for May 11 (#1065), detailing the four groups and their answers: yellow — creep, slip, sneak, steal; green — color, Ponzi, pyramid, rhyme; blue — Chinatown, Knives Out, Seven, Vertigo; purple — elegy, karma, keyed, shandy. The article also notes the NYT Connections Bot and how players can track progress.
Today's Wordle (May 10, 2026) is PARKA—a 5-letter word starting with P, containing two A's, and clued as a hooded jacket. The article also offers hints, strategies for solving Wordle, and a brief history of Wordle's origins and archive changes.
Mashable shares the May 8, 2026 NYT Strands hints, revealing a Garden Variety theme and a word list focused on simplicity (Basic, Pedestrian, Ordinary, Prosaic, Common, Run of the Mill). The spangram is vertical, and the answer is Run of the Mill.
The article provides hints and the completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 8, 2026 (#1062). It outlines four groups: yellow (canoodling terms like first base, making out, necking, tonsil hockey), green (five‑sided things such as home plate and the Pentagon), blue (uncommon places to be 'out of' like left field, nowhere, and thin air), and purple (ending in candy brands minus S, e.g., Whopper/Whoppers, Nerds, Mentos, Mounds). It also spotlights some of the puzzle’s toughest past entries.
CNET explains the New York Times Connections puzzle for May 6, 2026, which features an all-symbol grid. It decodes what the symbols mean and reveals the four solution groups and their answers: Yellow (casino items: cards, chips, dice, slot machine), Green (ways to fasten things: buckle, button, laces, zipper), Blue (things seen in a bowling alley: bowling ball, bowling pins, lane, scorecard), and Purple (flag designs: circle, horizontal/vertical trisections, etc.). The piece also covers how the Times Games Bot scores puzzles and shares notes on some of the toughest past Connections puzzles.
Defector's Monday crossword for May 4 was constructed by Rebecca Goldstein and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Goldstein is a Bay Area research scientist and crossword constructor who co-directs Westwords, a Berkeley-based tournament that will be online on June 14. Defector Crosswords runs Mondays in partnership with AVCX; readers can submit puzzles and sign up to play.
Mashable breaks down NYT Connections puzzle #1058 for May 4, 2026, sharing the four word-group clues and their solutions: Yellow clues for tender-hearted terms (MARSHMALLOW, SOFTIE, SWEETHEART, TEDDY BEAR); Green clues for pellet-filled things (BEANIE BABY, DESSICANT PACKET, EYE PILLOW, HACKY SACK); Blue clues for things with knobs (CONTROL PANEL, ETCH A SKETCH, RADIO, STOVE); Purple clues for names starting familiar dog kinds (CHOWDER, DOODLEBUG, LABUBU, PITTER-PATTER). The article also covers how the game works and notes you can view the solutions if you’re short on time.
CNET provides hints and the complete solutions for the New York Times NYT Connections puzzle No. 1,058 (May 4, 2026). The four groups are yellow (qualities of overcooked meat: chewy, dry, stringy, tough), green (play some electric guitar: jam, noodle, shred, solo), blue (bubble tea ingredients: boba, milk, sugar, tea), and purple (planets/dwarf planet with first-letter changes: Bluto, cars, Darth, genus). The piece also notes a NYT Connections Bot for scoring and progress tracking in Times Games and references related puzzles like Wordle and Strands.
Mashable shares hints and the official solution for NYT Connections #1055 (May 1, 2026), detailing the four word groups: Make glossy (BUFF, POLISH, SHINE, WAX); Translucent golden things (ALE, AMBER, CITRINE, HONEY); Features of a bird's head (BEAK, COMB, CREST, WATTLE); Numbers with first letter changed (HIVE, MIX, POUR, WIGHT). The piece also explains the game mechanics and how to play.
CNET shares hints and the full answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle on April 30, 2026 (puzzle #1054). The four groups are Yellow (theme: unnerve): alarm, disturb, shake, shock; Green (remove from a list with off): check, cross, mark, tick; Blue (what T might stand for): Tesla, time, true, Tyrannosaurus; Purple (homophones of possessive adjectives): hour, hur, there, yore. The article also notes the NYT Connections Bot and progress-tracking features for players.