All articles tagged with #puzzles
This piece offers spoiler-free hints for today’s NYT Connections puzzle (Aug. 24, 2026) by focusing on the meanings behind clues and common wordplay/visual-clue tricks used in the game. It highlights example clue meanings (Face, Heel, Jobber, Kayfabe, Mullet, Pike, Sole, Tang, Arch, Chief, Main, Ex-love, Eyelet) and notes Mashable’s ongoing daily hints for NYT Connections, Wordle, and Strands.
A CNET summary of the New York Times Connections puzzle for Aug. 19, 2026, listing the four groups and their solved words: Yellow (piece of cake) yields breeze, cinch, picnic, snap; Green (conceal) yields blanket, hide, mask, obscure; Blue (words before 'ball' in sport names) yields base, basket, foot, pickle; Purple (homophones of CGI-animated films) yields ants, cocoa, rheo, Seoul.
Mashable explains NYT Connections #1162 (Aug 16, 2026), listing the four category hints (Yellow: Musical, Green: Involved, Blue: Family Relationship Modifiers, Purple: Descriptors for Our Human Ancestors) and the solution groups: Musical Performance: CONCERT, GIG, SET, SHOW; Participant: ACTOR, AGENT, PARTY, PLAYER; Family Relationship Modifiers: GRAND, GREAT, HALF, STEP; Descriptors for Our Human Ancestors: FROM NEADER, HANDY, UPRIGHT, WISE. The piece also covers game rules (16 words, four groups, up to four mistakes, reshuffling) and notes you can skip to the answers if you prefer.
Mashable reveals today’s NYT Connections #1157 hints and the full solution: Doomed (DONE, SUNK, THROUGH, TOAST), Basic Cable Channels (BET, BRAVO, HISTORY, USA), Words in an Auctioneer's Chant (GOING, ONCE, SOLD, TWICE), and Homophones of Facial Features (AYE, HARE, KNOWS, TUNG). The piece also explains how the game works (16 words per puzzle, four color-coded groups, up to four mistakes, and the option to shuffle the board).
Mashable provides hints and the final solutions for NYT Connections puzzle #1154 (August 8, 2026). It explains the four category groups and their answers: Quaint expressions of excitement — HOT DOG, HURRAH, WHOOPEE, YAHOO; Convey — COUCH, EXPRESS, FRAME, PHRASE; Words abbreviated with letters as homophones — CUTIE, EASY, EFFECTS, I OWE YOUS; Safety ____ — BELT, GOGGLES, PIN, RAZOR. The piece also covers how to play, strategy tips, and notes that solutions are revealed for players who want them.
Rock Paper Shotgun reviews Big Walk, a slow-burn co-op exploration game where staying in touch is the core challenge; players navigate with limited proximity chat, radios and environmental puzzles, learning through trial and error as they search for each other and celebrate reunion.
Big Walk, a multiplayer-only title from House House, tasks 2–12 players with navigating a bright, open world to solve group puzzles and collect beans that unlock new features. The game Reward hinges on teamwork and communication, often producing hilarious missteps (lost walkie-talkies, wrong directions) that are endured and celebrated together rather than solo cleverness. Its design intentionally forces cooperation, making the experience feel like a vast, shared adventure where you’re small in a big world—fun despite, or because of, the chaos. The need to play with friends can be a barrier, but when a group does sync up, it’s a uniquely joyous co-op challenge.
House House’s Big Walk is a co-op puzzle adventure on a large island where 2–4 players (up to 12 in a session) must communicate via proximity chat to solve puzzles, with minimal guidance and a focus on shared exploration that evokes Zelda: Breath of the Wild; it launches August 4 on Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and Steam.
Indie studio Picayune Dreams' Endacopia fuses the whimsy of late-CD-ROM edutainment with eldritch horror, using Putt-Putt‑style puzzles, light combat, and surreal visuals to explore a nostalgia-tinged void between childhood games and nightmare fuel.
Mashable reveals hints and the four category solutions for NYT Connections #1147 (Aug 1, 2026): Bedding (COMFORTER, SHAM, SHEET, THROW); Oscar-winning actors since 2010 (BALE, JORDAN, PHOENIX, WALTZ); hole-machining operations (BORE, COUNTERSINK, DRILL, REAM); and starting with bread shapes (BOULEVARD, BUNDLE, LOAFER, ROLLS-ROYCE). The piece also explains the game’s color-coding and notes you can view the answers or try solving yourself.
Mashable shares the July 20, 2026 NYT Strands hints, including the theme 'Small talk', the spangram 'Itsy Bitsy', and the word list (Microscopic, Little, Tiny, Itsy Bitsy, Minuscule, Miniature) to help complete the puzzle.
CNET shares hints and the solutions for the NYT Connections puzzle #1135 (July 20, 2026). Four groupings are revealed: Yellow (proclaim) with blare, herald, sound, trumpet; Green (kinds of noses) with button, Greek, ski jump, snub; Blue (used in metaphors for opportunity) with blank page, horizon, oyster, window; Purple (starting with fermented beverages) with Alexa (ale), meadow (mead), portobello (port), sakes (sake). The piece also notes the NYT Connections Bot and progress-tracking features for Times Games.
Lifehacker shares spoilers for today’s NYT Strands puzzle (#868): the spangram SUPERSIZEIT and the theme words GIANT, BEHEMOTH, LEVIATHAN, MAMMOTH, and COLOSSUS, with tips on solving and a primer on how Strands works under the “Big talk” theme.
Mashable breaks down NYT's Connections puzzle #1133 for July 18, 2026, providing category hints and the official solution. The article explains the four 16-word boards, color-coded groups (Yellow: Commit a basketball violation; Green: Belief; Blue: Things tracked in video games; Purple: Words after 'Pop'), and then lists the solution words for each category: CARRY, DOUBLE DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL; ATTITUDE, MIND, OPINION, VIEW; HEALTH, LIVES, SCORE, TIME; CULTURE, FLY, QUIZ, TART.
Mashable reveals Wordle for July 15, 2026 (#1852) with the five-letter solution PSHAW, a word starting with P. The piece offers hints, a starting-letter cue, and general Wordle strategies, plus a brief look at Wordle’s origins and related puzzles.