NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, June 13 (game #832)

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A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, June 12 (game #831).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #832) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Track event

NYT Strands today (game #832) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• MUSE
• SLOG
• ROPE
• LIMES
• SLIME
• DIME

NYT Strands today (game #832) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 7 letters

NYT Strands today (game #832) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: left, 4th row

Last side: right, 3rd row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #832) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #832, are…

• MUSIC
• SONG
• QUEUE
• LYRICS
• LOUDSPEAKER
• MICROPHONE
• SPANGRAM: KARAOKE

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

“Track event” — that’s athletics right? Err, nope.

Fortunately the spangram — KARAOKE — was very difficult to miss, so I didn’t have to work looking for shot put, discus and javelin. Instead, our quest was searching for musical words.

I have always avoided KARAOKE, both having to sing — which is a nightmare — and also the horror of people murdering some of the greatest songs of all time. It is quite hard to avoid in TV shows, though; recently I suffered my way through Alfred Molina attempting Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen in the otherwise enjoyable The Boroughs. At least I think it was Thunder Road. It’s the sort of thing that should come with a warning before you start watching.

Anyway, I digress… the game was an easy one, made all the easier by a couple of long game words in MICROPHONE and LOUDSPEAKER.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, June 12, game #831)

• BODY
• POINT
• HOOK
• TOPIC
• PROBLEM
• CONCLUSION
• SPANGRAM: PARTSOFSPEECH

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, June 13 (game #1098)

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, June 12 (game #1097).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1098) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

• PUPPET
• TEACUP
• CLASSIC
• TOY
• MINIATURE
• CHRISTMAS
• STANDARD
• SPOON
• HIT
• NEVERENDING
• PROSTHETIC
• SAUCER
• WEST SIDE
• OLDIE
• TONGS
• MAKEUP

NYT Connections today (game #1098) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: As used in afternoon ceremony
• GREEN: A timeless tune
• BLUE: As seen in sci-fi films
• PURPLE: Films that share a word rhyming with “gory”

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1098) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: SEEN AT A TEA SERVICE
• GREEN: ENDURING SONG
• BLUE: USED IN MOVIE PRACTICAL EFFECTS
• PURPLE: WORDS BEFORE "STORY" IN MOVIE TITLES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1098) - the answers

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The answers to today's Connections, game #1098, are…

• YELLOW: SEEN AT A TEA SERVICE SAUCER, SPOON, TEACUP, TONGS
• GREEN: ENDURING SONG CLASSIC, HIT, OLDIE, STANDARD
• BLUE: USED IN MOVIE PRACTICAL EFFECTS MAKEUP, MINIATURE, PROSTHETIC, PUPPET
• PURPLE: WORDS BEFORE "STORY" IN MOVIE TITLES CHRISTMAS, NEVERENDING, TOY, WEST SIDE

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

It is always a thrill when you get a purple first, but sometimes that thrill is lessened by how easy the connection was.

That was the case for me today, with the four WORDS BEFORE "STORY" IN MOVIE TITLES — but then I am wondering if it is like this quite often for people more used to getting the hardest category before any of the easier ones.

Far more likely is that today was a relaxing day designed to lull us into a false sense of weekend security before dealing out a quartet of impenetrable groups tomorrow. 

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, June 12, game #1097)

• YELLOW: STARTING WITH INCANTATIONS CHARM BRACELET, CURSE WORD, HEX KEY, SPELL CHECKER
• GREEN: STARTING WITH ANIMAL GROUP NAMES MURDER MYSTERY, PACK RAT, PRIDE ROCK, SCHOOL DAYS
• BLUE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "REPEAT" COPY EDITOR, ECHO PARK, MIRROR SELFIE, QUOTE UNQUOTE
• PURPLE: STARTING WITH PARTS OF A RIVER BANK TELLER, BED HEAD, DELTA AIRLINES, MOUTH GUARD

What is NYT Connections?

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 different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

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'I think that combination of interior and exterior will create these moments that really live long after the player puts down the controller' — Alien: Isolation 2 is designed to 'really stay' with players and be 'unforgettable', says Creative Assembly

• Creative Assembly wants Alien: Isolation 2 to be as memorable as the first game
• Creative Director Al Hope says the new exterior setting "feels like a natural evolution of the experience"
• The alien will "adapt and behave" differently to hunt the player

Creative Assembly has said it was "absolutely the intention" for Alien: Isolation to feel "too scary" for players, and the goal is to make the sequel just as memorable.

Alien: Isolation is one of the best horror games of all time, and in the newly announced sequel, players will once again be stranded in space while a sentient creature hunts them down. How lovely!

Unlike the first game, where players are confined to a space station, Alien: Isolation 2 will have a new setting and feature both exterior and interior environments, which Creative Director Al Hope said "feels like a natural evolution of the experience."

"It's the best of both worlds," Hope said in an interview with TechRadar Gaming at Summer Game Fest (SGF) 2026, "it has those claustrophobic-type interior spaces and those now exposed and very vulnerable feeling exterior spaces. I think for us, that's the most exciting starting point."

In Isolation 2, these new open spaces also mean players will need to be on their guard more than before, because the creature will also be able to "adapt and behave in a different way in order to be able to hunt in the exterior."

"The alien is well known for, in Alien: Isolation, learning and adapting based on his encounters with the player," Hope said. "It will be doing that in the exterior as well. So, as you come up with strategies and tactics, it will start to learn about those and then be able to circumvent them. So, you have to think again, get really creative, get imaginative, you know, imaginative in order to be able to survive, progress, and survive."

He continued: "The experience is evolving to include the exterior, thus one of the big changes for the creature is being able to hunt the player effectively in the exterior. For us, right now, it feels like a really fantastic opportunity, and I think people can already imagine what that's going to be like."

Animation Director Simon Ridge knows that the first game was loved by fans, and that it also terrified them, adding that the team's goal with Isolation 2 is to "deliver something to the audience that hopefully makes them as happy, terrified as before."

"That's a really fantastic opportunity," Ridge said.

Hope continued, "I like to think that anyone who played Alien: Isolation probably remembers playing Alien Isolation. Even if they think, 'Oh man, that was too scary,' and that's absolutely the intention for the sequel to make something that's truly unforgettable, and I think that combination of interior and exterior will create these moments that really live long after the player puts down the controller (or mouse and keyboard).

"That's the intention: to create something that really stays."

Alien: Isolation 2 doesn't have a release date yet, but it's set to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.

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Quordle hints and answers for Friday, June 12 (game #1600)

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A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, June 11 (game #1599).

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,400 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles, while Marc's Wordle today column covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #1600) - hint #1 - Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #1600) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Do any of today's Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 2.

Quordle today (game #1600) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• Yes. One of Q, Z, X or J appears among today's Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #1600) - hint #4 - starting letters (1)

Do any of today's Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today's Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #1600) - hint #5 - starting letters (2)

What letters do today's Quordle answers start with?

• T

• S

• J

• U

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #1600) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle, game #1600, are…

• TENTH
• SHOAL
• JELLY
• UNIFY

Gosh, this was a tricky game and another one where every word took ages to get, although I am pretty pleased that I only made one wrong guess (“belly” instead of JELLY).

I also wasted quite a while because I spelled SHOAL s-h-a-o-l and spent ages trying to think of other words that would fit.

Hope it was easier for you.

Daily Sequence today (game #1600) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1600, are…

• DEMUR
• AGAPE
• BRINK
• HAUTE

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1599, Thursday, 11 June: GAMMA, SPILL, SALVE, RURAL
• Quordle #1598, Wednesday, 10 June: BELIE, TEACH, GUEST, NOOSE
• Quordle #1597, Tuesday, 9 June: VENOM, UNITE, SHIRT, ANGER
• Quordle #1596, Monday, 8 June: CURSE, DROVE, SNOWY, DEBUG
• Quordle #1595, Sunday, 7 June: QUERY, AXION, LILAC, SWORD
• Quordle #1594, Saturday, 6 June: SIEVE, PHONY, GIVER, KNOWN
• Quordle #1593, Friday, 5 June: RECUR, SCOUT, SCOWL, CHORD
• Quordle #1592, Thursday, 4 June: ENSUE, YACHT, CURRY, NASTY
• Quordle #1591, Wednesday, 3 June: MOODY, JEWEL, BLEAT, SOAPY
• Quordle #1590, Tuesday, 2 June: GRAIL, STRUT, SHALE, SORRY
• Quordle #1589, Monday, 1 June: STOOD, FROND, REMIT, VOWEL
• Quordle #1588, Sunday, 31 May: WRYLY, MOUNT, OVERT, CACAO
• Quordle #1587, Saturday, 30 May: WHILE, TAPER, BRAWL, REPLY
• Quordle #1586, Friday, 29 May: DRIFT, CREPT, ETHOS, DECAY
• Quordle #1585, Thursday, 28 May: GRAPE, VALUE, YEARN, INFER
• Quordle #1584, Wednesday, 27 May: GAUZE, REPAY, GIANT, STEEP
• Quordle #1583, Tuesday, 26 May: MODAL, MELON, PSALM, DRAWN
• Quordle #1582, Monday, 25 May: SLIME, ARISE, EAGER, SHEIK
• Quordle #1581, Sunday, 24 May: RIGHT, STALE, FLUKE, LINEN

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NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, June 12 (game #1097)

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, June 11 (game #1096).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1097) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

• SCHOOL DAYS
• BED HEAD
• QUOTE
• UNQUOTE
• CURSE WORD
• COPY EDITOR
• SPELL
• CHECKER
• BANK TELLER
• PACK RAT
• CHARM
• BRACELET
• MURDER MYSTERY
• MIRROR SELFIE 
• MOUTH GUARD
• PRIDE ROCK
• ECHO PARK
• DELTA AIRLINES
• HEX KEY

NYT Connections today (game #1097) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: Begin with witchy words
• GREEN: Began with beastly words
• BLUE: Begin with samey words
• PURPLE: Begin with wet words

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1097) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: STARTING WITH INCANTATIONS
• GREEN: STARTING WITH ANIMAL GROUP NAMES
• BLUE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "REPEAT"
• PURPLE: STARTING WITH PARTS OF A RIVER 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1097) - the answers

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The answers to today's Connections, game #1097, are…

• YELLOW: STARTING WITH INCANTATIONS CHARM BRACELET, CURSE WORD, HEX KEY, SPELL CHECKER
• GREEN: STARTING WITH ANIMAL GROUP NAMES MURDER MYSTERY, PACK RAT, PRIDE ROCK, SCHOOL DAYS
• BLUE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "REPEAT" COPY EDITOR, ECHO PARK, MIRROR SELFIE, QUOTE UNQUOTE
• PURPLE: STARTING WITH PARTS OF A RIVER BANK TELLER, BED HEAD, DELTA AIRLINES, MOUTH GUARD

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 2 mistakes

A  “starting with…” special that made the second words in every single tile irrelevant — meaning that the Connections setters just made all of these tiles two words just to play with our brains. Thanks.

Realizing this trick did make this game easier, but I still got caught out trying to put my groups of four together. 

STARTING WITH INCANTATIONS and STARTING WITH ANIMAL GROUP NAMES I got easily enough; MURDER MYSTERY was the giveaway for the latter. However, I fell to pieces after that and was lucky to escape with a victory.

At first, my remaining eight tiles conjured up an alternative phonetic alphabet that grouped DELTA AIRLINES, ECHO PARK, MIRROR SELFIE, and QUOTE UNQUOTE; after getting a lucky one away, I finally grasped STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR “REPEAT”.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, June 11, game #1096)

• YELLOW: PARTS OF A WORKOUT ROUTINE BALANCE, CARDIO, STRETCHING, WEIGHTS
• GREEN: THINGS WITH HORNS BRASS BAND, DEVIL, RHINO, VIKING HELMET
• BLUE: HOMOPHONES OF SUVS BRONCHO, FORERUNNER, TROUPER, UCONN
• PURPLE: PAYMENT APPS MINUS A LETTER ELLE, PAPAL, STRIP, VENO

What is NYT Connections?

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 different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

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Toys for Bob dev says the team tried to capture 'the feeling that we fell in love with' when developing Spyro: A Realm Beyond instead of worrying about features first

• Toys for Bob wanted to recapture the feeling from playing previous games when developing Spyro: A Realm Beyond
• It wanted to focus on "the feeling that we fell in love with" rather than worrying about a list of features
• Chief creative officer and Studio Head, Paul Yan, says, "If you stick too much to nostalgia, it feels like you're rehashing"

Toys for Bob focused on recapturing how the team felt from playing previous games when making Spyro: A Realm Beyond, rather than worrying about a list of features to include.

That's according to Studio Head, Paul Yan, who told TechRadar Gaming in an interview at Summer Game Fest that the groundwork of the game was built on what the team loves about the series.

When asked if there are any core features from previous games that the team avoided or tried to modernize, Yan said "everything's going to get touched," but when it worked on a new title "one of the things that we try and do is really hunker down and try and isolate how that franchise makes us feel, not specific feature lists, not comparison of parts, but the feeling that we fell in love with."

"We also look into the fan community," he added, "we look to just outside communication, our own communication, and we start isolating and figuring what that means, like what are the fantasies we want, so when we say, you know, a zen-like kind of exploration with a fluidity of movement that is more important to us to identify that as essential to feeling like Spyro than saying, 'Oh, his charge moves x number of units over x number of time', or things that happen."

"So we build that kind of knowledge and ingrain and canonify those feelings, and that's where we build from, and then throughout development we will have those conversations of are we changing them or touching that, is that new, are we keeping, are we not.

"But at the same time, the tip of the spear is the feelings that we want to preserve, and we want to amplify more than any specific feature institute."

Yan also said that there is a challenge to balancing nostalgia when making a new game, "versus how much do you branch out," explaining that both can be bad in some cases.

"If you stick too much to nostalgia, it feels like you're rehashing," Yan said. "'Why did we even bother doing this?' [...] Then you go on the other extreme, and you change everything, and now it's like 'I don't even recognize this character'. So we're very proud of the fact that through the process of this, we've been very thoughtful about it, and trying to talk about the tone and the core, and making sure that we're referencing all the fan feedback, and all the feelings, and the insights that have come from the Reignited Trilogy, so we feel confident that that base has given us a lot of information informed our own gun instincts about what Spyro is, and then our vision for Spyro is that this is just one of many games for the future.

"We would love to see more in this franchise. Hopefully, you know, around Beyond sets him up on a really strong footing."

Spyro: A Realm Beyond launches in Spring 2027 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Series S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, June 11 (game #830)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, June 10 (game #829).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #830) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Oozing

NYT Strands today (game #830) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• SHIRE
• BITES
• HERO
• ZOOM
• SOUR
• CHEST

NYT Strands today (game #830) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 9 letters

NYT Strands today (game #830) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 3rd column

Last side: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #830) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #830, are…

• BLUES
• FUSE
• CHOOSE
• BREWS
• SCHMOOZE
• SHOES
• CRUISE
• SPANGRAM: RHYMETIME

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 1 hint

It took me quite a while to understand today's theme, but after I noticed the first word I found (BLUE) and a hint word (FUSE) rhymed, it slowly dawned on me that we weren’t looking for things that oozed.

Well, this is a game you cannot lose so whatever I choose would give me clues that i can use to satisfy my muse…

Anyway I digress. From here it was just a case of finding the rhyming words of which SCHMOOZE took me ages to figure out, attempting ooze and, er, mooze, before finally getting there. Right, I think I need a snooze.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Wednesday, June 10, game #829)

• PHOTO
• FILE
• SOFTWARE
• DOCUMENT
• APPLICATION
• SONG
• SPANGRAM: DOWNLOAD

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, June 11 (game #1096)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 10 (game #1095).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1096) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

• DEVIL
• STRIP
• PAPAL
• BRONCHO
• VENO
• BRASS BAND
• UCONN
• RHINO
• CARDIO
• TROUPER
• VIKING HELMET
• BALANCE
• ELLE
• WEIGHTS
• FORERUNNER
• STRETCHING

NYT Connections today (game #1096) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: Fitness sesion
• GREEN: All have something that rhymes with “thorns”
• BLUE: Sound like a large vehicle
• PURPLE: Digital wallets

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1096) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: PARTS OF A WORKOUT ROUTINE
• GREEN: THINGS WITH HORNS
• BLUE: HOMOPHONES OF SUVS 
• PURPLE: PAYMENT APPS MINUS A LETTER

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1096) - the answers

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The answers to today's Connections, game #1096, are…

• YELLOW: PARTS OF A WORKOUT ROUTINE BALANCE, CARDIO, STRETCHING, WEIGHTS
• GREEN: THINGS WITH HORNS BRASS BAND, DEVIL, RHINO, VIKING HELMET
• BLUE: HOMOPHONES OF SUVS BRONCHO, FORERUNNER, TROUPER, UCONN
• PURPLE: PAYMENT APPS MINUS A LETTER ELLE, PAPAL, STRIP, VENO

• My rating: Hard
• My score: Fail

I had a hunch that today would be a tough day, but I didn’t suspect how frustrating it would be.

Initially, I had the joy of a purple first — although it did take me two tries, as although I could see the thread I couldn’t think of any other digital wallet system after Paypal, Venmo and Stripe. ELLE, which I now know is for Zelle, was a guess.

PARTS OF A WORKOUT ROUTINE I got easily enough, but where I fell down was THINGS WITH HORNS and failing to think laterally with BRASS BAND. Ah well, roll on Friday.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, June 10, game #1095)

• YELLOW: TECHNIQUE FASHION, MANNER, METHOD, WAY
• GREEN: GROSS THINGS THAT FORM ON WET SURFACES CRUST, FILM, SCUM, SKIN
• BLUE: PARTS OF A THEATER CATWALK, PIT, STAGE, WINGS
• PURPLE: COUNTED IN DOCUMENT WORD COUNTS CHARACTER, LINE, PAGE, WORD

What is NYT Connections?

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 different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

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This Microsoft Defender zero-day could give hackers unprecedented access to your system

• Chaotic Eclipse drops seventh Windows zero‑day, “RoguePlanet,” hours after Patch Tuesday
• Race‑condition exploit grants SYSTEM privileges; PoC confirmed viable by ThreatLocker
• Researcher continues public disclosures amid feud with Microsoft, following BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, YellowKey, GreenPlasma, and MiniPlasma

Chaotic Eclipse, the mysterious security researcher with a Microsoft grudge, disclosed another zero-day vulnerability in a fully patched Windows 11 device, just hours after Microsoft released its recent record June Patch Tuesday cumulative update.

This is the seventh zero-day exploit Chaotic Eclipse has disclosed in a matter of months. Called “RoguePlanet”, this bug is described as a “race condition vulnerability” that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices.

The researcher published a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit earlier this week in a self-hosted Git, after saying that both GitHub and GitLab repositories hosting earlier work got removed by Microsoft.

Performing as described

"The exploit is a race condition, so it's a hit or miss. I have managed to get a 100% success rate on some machines while it struggled to work on others," they explained.

Security researchers ThreatLocker confirmed to the publication that the flaw works, and even recorded a video to demonstrate how it works.

"Our initial analysis confirms that the RoguePlanet exploit is viable and performs as described. Organizations using application allowlisting can prevent the exploit from executing, providing an effective layer of protection against this attack," Danny Jenkins, CEO of ThreatLocker, told BleepingComputer.

In early April 2026, Chaotic Eclipse disclosed finding BlueHammer, a Windows Defender privilege escalation vulnerability. At the time, they said they were leaking it because they were unsatisfied with how Microsoft handled vulnerability disclosures.

"They mopped the floor with me and pulled every childish game they could. It was soo bad at some point I was wondering if I was dealing with a massive corporation or someone who is just having fun seeing me suffer but it seems to be a collective decision,” they later elaborated.

In the meantime, six more flaws were disclosed: RedSun, UnDefend, YellowKey, GreenPlasma, and MiniPlasma - with Microsoft releasing this month’s Patch Tuesday cumulative update, fixing two of the flaws: GreenPlasma and YellowKey.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, June 10 (game #829)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, June 9 (game #828).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #829) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Something just clicked

NYT Strands today (game #829) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• RATE
• CORE
• PATH
• CASUAL
• COMA
• WATER

NYT Strands today (game #829) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 8 letters

NYT Strands today (game #829) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 3rd column

Last side: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #829) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #829, are…

• PHOTO
• FILE
• SOFTWARE
• DOCUMENT
• APPLICATION
• SONG
• SPANGRAM: DOWNLOAD

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 1 hint

My first thoughts around the theme “something just clicked” was either something to do with things with switches or maybe songs with finger clicks (Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie is my favorite).

Ultimately, though, it was all about mouse clicks and the many things we might DOWNLOAD onto our desktop.

It’s rare that we have a game word longer than the spangram and I’m struggling to work out how I completely failed to see the word APPLICATION.

Instead, I began with PHOTO, which kept me on a “things with switches and buttons” track before a hint gave me FILE and I changed my thinking.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, June 9, game #828)

• SNACKS
• WAVES
• DECK
• SEASICKNESS
• DRINKS
• DANCING
• SPANGRAM: IMONABOAT

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 10 (game #1095)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, June 9 (game #1094).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1095) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

• STAGE
• PAGE
• FASHION
• FILM
• METHOD
• SKIN
• CHARACTER
• WINGS
• PIT
• CRUST
• WORD
• WAY
• LINE
• CATWALK
• SCUM
• MANNER

NYT Connections today (game #1095) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: How it’s done
• GREEN: Disgusting matter
• BLUE: Bits of a venue 
• PURPLE: Quantifiable eilements of written work

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1095) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: TECHNIQUE 
• GREEN: GROSS THINGS THAT FORM ON WET SURFACES
• BLUE: PARTS OF A THEATER
• PURPLE: COUNTED IN DOCUMENT WORD COUNTS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1095) - the answers

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The answers to today's Connections, game #1095, are…

• YELLOW: TECHNIQUE FASHION, MANNER, METHOD, WAY
• GREEN: GROSS THINGS THAT FORM ON WET SURFACES CRUST, FILM, SCUM, SKIN
• BLUE: PARTS OF A THEATER CATWALK, PIT, STAGE, WINGS
• PURPLE: COUNTED IN DOCUMENT WORD COUNTS CHARACTER, LINE, PAGE, WORD

• My rating: Easy
• My score: 1 mistake

It’s funny how sometimes you can get to the right answer by going in completely the wrong direction.

After getting PARTS OF A THEATER (although I was far from certain about CATWALK) I thought I spied a second theatrical group and put together METHOD, CHARACTER, PAGE, and LINE, thinking that this described four different types of acting — I was imagining that PAGE and LINE actors were ones who strictly followed scripts.

Fortunately, after getting one away I realized it was a breakdown of the written word as in things COUNTED IN DOCUMENT WORD COUNTS. I fully expect to be punished for my luck tomorrow.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, June 2, game #1087)

• YELLOW: SYMBOLS OF INNOCENCE ANGEL, BABE, DOVE, LAMB
• GREEN: THINGS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO REVEAL PASSWORD, SECRET, SPOILER, SURPRISE
• BLUE: THINGS REPRESENTED IN SUPERSCRIPT ASTERISK, DEGREE, EXPONENT, TRADEMARK
• PURPLE: SLANG FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AXE, BONE, KEYS, SKINS

What is NYT Connections?

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 different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

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A single character could be enough to let hackers crack your Linux kernel

• Logic‑inversion bug in Linux kernel (CVE‑2026‑23111) enabled local privilege escalation
• Affected major distros including Debian, Ubuntu, and RHEL; fixes rolling out unevenly
• Discovery adds to surge of recent Linux LPEs as maintainers struggle with AI‑driven bug‑report overload

A single stray character sitting in the Linux kernel created a logic inversion bug that enabled privilege escalation, leading to a (theoretical) full device takeover.

The bug was discovered in early 2025 by security researcher Oliver Sieber from Exodus Intelligence, who later demonstrated a full working local root exploit, and is now tracked as CVE-2026-23111 and given a severity score of 7.8/10 (high).

According to TheHackerNews, the vulnerability is tied to the upstream Linux kernel, meaning it can affect many distributions that shipped a vulnerable kernel build. Specifically, Debian (Bookworm and Trixie, and in some instances Bullseye), Ubuntu (22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, and 25.10), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) were confirmed to have been affected - with SUSE and Amazon Linux also being tracked or affected in general.

Multiple kernel flaws discovered

The caveat here is that a system is only exposed if it has a vulnerable kernel version (before the fix), nf_tables enabled, and unprivileged user namespaces enabled.

In the weeks and months following the disclosure, some distro maintainers came forward with a fix. Ubuntu, for example, now has fixes for 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10, while Debian fixed Bookworm and Trixie. There is also a 6.1 backport for Bullseye LTS. Red Hat, SUSE, and Amazon Linux don’t seem to have fixed it yet.

It’s been an eventful few weeks for the Linux kernel, as researchers discovered multiple local-root vulnerabilities. Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, Fragnesia, DirtyDecrypt, are just some of the major vulnerabilities that were discovered and fixed in recent times.

At the same time, the Linux allfather Linux Torvalds said the project’s security mailing list has become “almost entirely unmanageable” due to researchers using AI to find bugs, filing duplicate reports, essentially DDoS-ing those working to actually address them.

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Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, June 9 (game #1597)

Looking for a different day?

A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Monday, June 8 (game #1596).

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,400 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles, while Marc's Wordle today column covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #1597) - hint #1 - Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #1597) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Do any of today's Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 0.

Quordle today (game #1597) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today's Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #1597) - hint #4 - starting letters (1)

Do any of today's Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today's Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #1597) - hint #5 - starting letters (2)

What letters do today's Quordle answers start with?

• V

• U

• S

• A

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #1597) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle, game #1597, are…

• VENOM
• UNITE
• SHIRT
• ANGER

I had two guessing triumphs today. 

The first was getting VENOM after previously struggling to employ the letter V.

The second was choosing correctly between skirt and SHIRT — purely based on the more common letter.

Daily Sequence today (game #1597) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1597, are…

• AUDIT
• BASIC
• DRAMA
• WAVER

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1596, Monday, 8 June: CURSE, DROVE, SNOWY, DEBUG
• Quordle #1595, Sunday, 7 June: QUERY, AXION, LILAC, SWORD
• Quordle #1594, Saturday, 6 June: SIEVE, PHONY, GIVER, KNOWN
• Quordle #1593, Friday, 5 June: RECUR, SCOUT, SCOWL, CHORD
• Quordle #1592, Thursday, 4 June: ENSUE, YACHT, CURRY, NASTY
• Quordle #1591, Wednesday, 3 June: MOODY, JEWEL, BLEAT, SOAPY
• Quordle #1590, Tuesday, 2 June: GRAIL, STRUT, SHALE, SORRY
• Quordle #1589, Monday, 1 June: STOOD, FROND, REMIT, VOWEL
• Quordle #1588, Sunday, 31 May: WRYLY, MOUNT, OVERT, CACAO
• Quordle #1587, Saturday, 30 May: WHILE, TAPER, BRAWL, REPLY
• Quordle #1586, Friday, 29 May: DRIFT, CREPT, ETHOS, DECAY
• Quordle #1585, Thursday, 28 May: GRAPE, VALUE, YEARN, INFER
• Quordle #1584, Wednesday, 27 May: GAUZE, REPAY, GIANT, STEEP
• Quordle #1583, Tuesday, 26 May: MODAL, MELON, PSALM, DRAWN
• Quordle #1582, Monday, 25 May: SLIME, ARISE, EAGER, SHEIK
• Quordle #1581, Sunday, 24 May: RIGHT, STALE, FLUKE, LINEN
• Quordle #1580, Saturday, 23 May: JUICY, DREAM, IDYLL, BRAID
• Quordle #1579, Friday, 22 May: GAILY, HITCH, DRUNK, COUNT
• Quordle #1578, Thursday, 21 May: RANCH, OTTER, WREST, ILIAC

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