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Hurdle game on a smartphone

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you



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Connections game on a smartphone

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you're a history buff.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some


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Today's Connections: Sports Edition is easy if you're familiar with hockey.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of


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From references to Shawshank Prison to the involvement of The Shining's Dick Hallorann, IT: Welcome to Derry is full of Stephen King Easter eggs. The show's third episode is no different, bringing in an important element from King's novel that never actually wound up in Andy Muschietti's two IT films.

I'm talking, of course, about slingshots.



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IT: Welcome to Derry is the kind of show you need to pay close attention to when you watch.

Andy Muschietti's IT prequel is packed full of Stephen King Easter eggs, from the clue-filled opening credits to full-blown crossover characters.

Episode 3 is no different, and there's even a brief cameo from Muschietti himself that you may have missed.


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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you work a 9 to 5.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's



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Stéphanie Guillaume left Switzerland and moved to South Korea in 2022.
  • When Stéphanie Guillaume realized two years had passed in a job she didn't enjoy, she decided to start over.
  • In 2022, she left Switzerland to fulfill her long-held dream of living in South Korea.
  • Now, she's self-employed and lives in a studio apartment near Seoul Forest.

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Pennies are displayed on October 31, 2025, in San Anselmo, California.
Food brands are making subtle pricing changes as the US phases out penny production.
  • The US is slowly bidding farewell to pennies as one-cent production is being phased out.
  • Fast-food chains are making small changes to customers' final bills in the absence of pennies.
  • Chains like McDonald's and Wendy's have started rounding cash payments up or down to the

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