​Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. It took me a really long time to figure out the theme of today’s NYT Strands puzzle. Also, some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle. Today’s Strands theme is: While you were sleeping…. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.. Clue words to unlock in-game hints. Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:. HUNT, DEAN, NEON, NOEL, LONE, FAIR, WANT TOOL, POET, HAIR, CHANGE. Answers for today’s Strands puzzle. These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:. WAND, COIN, NOTE, TUTU, WINGS, PILLOW, EXCHANGE.. Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands puzzle for March 31, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Today’s Strands spangram is THETOOTHFAIRY. To find it, start with the T that is two letters up from the bottom on the far-left, and wind down, and then over, up, over, down, over and up again!. Toughest Strands puzzles. Here are some of the Strands topics I’ve found to be the toughest.. #1: Dated slang. Maybe you didn’t even use this lingo when it was cool. Toughest word: PHAT.. #2: Thar she blows! I guess marine biologists might ace this one. Toughest word: BALEEN or RIGHT.. #3: Off the hook. Again, it helps to know a lot about sea creatures. Sorry, Charlie. Toughest word: BIGEYE or SKIPJACK.  

​Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a pretty fun one. Animal lovers should get a kick out of the purple category. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.. Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time. Hints for today’s Connections groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: Not enough.. Green group hint: Yo-ho-ho!. Blue group hint: Underwire is another variety.. Purple group hint: Pup tent would also work here.. Answers for today’s Connections groups. Yellow group: Shortage.. Green group: Parts of a pirate ship.. Blue group: Kinds of bras.. Purple group: Starting with baby animals.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections answers?. The completed NYT Connections puzzle for March 31, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is shortage. The four answers are absence, crunch, deficit and pinch.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is parts of a pirate ship. The four answers are cannon, crow’s next, Jolly Roher and plank.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is kinds of bras. The four answers are plunge, push-up, sports and wireless.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is starting with baby animals. The four answers are calf raise, chick flick, fry cook and Kit Kat.. Toughest Connections puzzles. We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.. #5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.. #4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.. #3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.. #2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.. #1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.  

​Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s Wordle puzzle came together pretty well for me, though some of the letters were ones I don’t normally guess right away. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.. Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025. Today’s Wordle hints. Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats. Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels. Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel.. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter. Today’s Wordle answer begins with S.. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter. Today’s Wordle answer ends with P.. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning. Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a bog or marsh.. TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER. Today’s Wordle answer is SWAMP.. Yesterday’s Wordle answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 30, No. 1745, was COMET.. Recent Wordle answers. March 26, No. 1741: BEFIT. March 27, No. 1742: IVORY. March 28, No. 1743: AFOOT. March 29, No. 1744: CHUMP. What’s the best Wordle starting word?. Don’t be afraid to use our tip sheet ranking all the letters in the alphabet by frequency of uses. In short, you want starter words that lean heavy on E, A and R, and don’t contain Z, J and Q.. Some solid starter words to try:. ADIEU. TRAIN. CLOSE. STARE. NOISE  

​Most people have experienced mild motion sickness — perhaps from staring at your phone in the back of an erratic Uber or riding a particularly loopy amusement park ride. It usually passes quickly, but severe cases can be challenging to manage. Samsung now has an app for that. The tech giant’s new Hearapy app for Android uses the headphones you already own to relieve motion sickness with sound.. Motion sickness is generally what you get when the signals from your eyes and inner ear don’t jibe with each other, resulting most commonly in dizziness or, in severe cases, nausea, sweats and vomiting. It’s most frequently experienced in cars, on boats and other moving vehicles, but can also be caused by tech, including phones. The disorienting cybersickness, for example, can be brought on by scrolling screens or playing video games or VR.. Frequent or severe motion sickness can be treated with over-the-counter medicine, pressure point therapy, acupuncture, candy or just staring at a fixed point for a while. However, Samsung’s app directly targets and soothes the inner ear by stimulating it with sound waves.. Samsung Hearapy is a simple app. Pop in your headphones, click the Start button and a low-frequency bass sine wave is played for around 60 seconds. According to Samsung, this minute of deep audio stimulation resets the inner ear’s balance system and can relieve motion sickness for up to two hours.. The Hearapy app is simple: Open it and tap start to hear the 100Hz tone for 60 seconds. Headphones are recommended. Samsung, Screenshot by Antuan Goodwin/CNET. Samsung recommends headphones for best results — naturally pointing to its own Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, though any pair will work — and won’t play the tone until headphones are connected. You can override this in the settings, if you’re willing to risk disappointment from your phone’s tiny speakers. The tone duration can also be adjusted between 40 and 120 seconds.. Samsung supports its motion sickness solution with scientific research. The developers reference a study from Japan’s Nagoya University that examined sound therapy as a way to improve balance in mice and humans. According to the researchers, people who listened to a 100Hz sine tone for one to two minutes experienced up to two hours of improved balance, lower stress levels and reduced motion sickness symptoms during a car ride.. I’ve never experienced severe motion sickness. In fact, I suspect I’m immune to it, which is a blessing given how often I write in moving vehicles. So I couldn’t fully test Samsung’s claims about the app’s effectiveness. Even so, I gave it a listen, and at the very least, it’s a relaxing tone. But if you or someone you know deals with frequent motion sickness, it’s worth trying. The Hearapy app is free and available on the Google Play Store.  

​California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed an executive order requiring AI companies that do business with the state to institute safety and privacy guidelines.. The order (PDF) is designed to ensure that companies contracting with the state adhere to rigorous standards and develop responsible policies to prevent misuse of their technology while protecting consumers’ safety and privacy, according to Newsom’s office.. “California leads in AI, and we’re going to use every tool we have to ensure companies protect people’s rights, not exploit them or put them in harm’s way,” Newsom said in a statement. “While others in Washington are designing policy and creating contracts in the shadow of misuse, we’re focused on doing this the right way.”. The executive order comes as the Trump administration maintains that the federal government should be responsible for regulating the AI industry — and that requiring AI companies to comply with 50 different sets of state laws would prevent the US from “winning” the global AI race.. The White House recently released a new policy framework for regulating generative AI that focuses on some of the biggest concerns people have about AI: job loss, copyright chaos for creators, rapidly expanding infrastructure such as data centers and the protection of vulnerable groups like children. But critics say it doesn’t go far enough to regulate the fast-growing AI industry.. Some states have passed laws making it a crime to create sexual images of people without their consent, while others have placed restrictions on insurance companies using AI to approve or deny health care claims. Companies, including Google, Meta, OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, have been calling for national AI standards rather than litigating across all 50 states.