​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.. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle should appeal to musicians of all kinds. 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: I blew it!. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: I’m in the band.. 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:. NORM, CARL, MODE, MODES, LUTE, COME, COME, BEND, NITE, TINE, HARM. 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:. OBOE, FLUTE, CLARINET, RECORDER, HARMONICA. Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands for March 26, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Today’s Strands spangram is WINDINSTRUMENT. To find it, start with the W that is at the bottom of the far-left vertical row, and wind up and across.. 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 regular 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 and Strands puzzles.. How good are you at unscrambling letters to make a new word out of an old one? Today’s Connections: Sports Edition requires you to do just that — for the purple category, naturally. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.. Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta. Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: Touch ’em all!. Green group hint: It’s outta here!. Blue group hint: Working one’s way up to the majors.. Purple group hint: Unscramble these words.. Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Yellow group: Slang for home run.. Green group: MLB home run leaders in 2025.. Blue group: Minor league baseball leagues.. Purple group: Anagrams of MLB teams.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?. The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for March 26, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is slang for home run. The four answers are dinger, homer, jack and round-tripper.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is MLB home run leaders in 2025. The four answers are Judge, Ohtani, Raleigh and Schwarber.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is minor league baseball leagues. The four answers are Carolina, International, Pacific Coast and Texas.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is anagrams of MLB teams. The four answers are Bucs (Cubs), parties (Pirates), spread (Padres) and stem (Mets).. Toughest Connections: Sports Edition categories. The Connections: Sports Edition puzzle can be tough, but it really depends on which sports you know the most about. My husband aces anything having to do with Formula 1, my best friend is a hockey buff, and I can answer any question about Minnesota teams.. That said, it’s hard to pick the toughest Connections categories, but here are some I found exceptionally mind-blowing.. #1: Serie A Clubs. Answers: Atalanta, Juventus, Lazio, Roma.. #2: WNBA MVPs. Answers: Catchings, Delle Donne, Fowles and Stewart.. #3: Premier League team nicknames. Answers: Bees, Cherries, Foxes and Hammers.. #4: Homophones of NBA player names. Answers: Barns, Connect, Heart and Hero.  

​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 is kind of an unusual word, though the letters are fairly common. 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 two vowels.. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter. Today’s Wordle answer begins with B.. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter. Today’s Wordle answer ends with T.. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning. Today’s Wordle answer can refer to being appropriate or suited for something.. TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER. Today’s Wordle answer is BEFIT.. Yesterday’s Wordle answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 25, No. 1740, was WISER.. Recent Wordle answers. March 21, No. 1736: SLICK. March 22, No. 1737: BASIL. March 23, No. 1738: SERIF. March 24, No. 1739: BROOD  

​I’m so happy you’re here, and I hope we’re all doing a great job showing you the coolest Big Spring Sale deals here. CNET’s shopping experts are also working on a ton of other things this week, and I’m going to highlight a couple of them for you here. We’re tracking everything from vacuums to gaming accessories and just about everything in between.. This may be Amazon’s event, and there are plenty of great Amazon deals you can check out here, but there are some great deals at Walmart to take a look at as well. Best Buy also has a sale going on, though not quite as big as the other two this time.. We never pay full price for Apple tech in this house, which is why we’re keeping an eye out for iPad deals, MacBook deals, AirPod deals and all of the savings you can currently find on your next iPhone. Not an iPhone kind of person? We’ve got you covered with other phone deals too, as well as laptops and monitors currently on sale.. There’s quite a bit you can save on during the Big Spring Sale so far, but the two areas that really stand out so far are headphone deals and savings on outdoor gear. We’ve also found some decent deals on grills and TVs, but not nearly as many.. Not interested in making a big purchase right now? No worries, there are some fantastic sales under $25 we’ve found all over the place, as well as a collection of sales on Blu-rays, and so many books. If you know where to look, there are also some solid kitchen deals, or if you’re looking to get outside and start working out more, the fitness savings aren’t bad at all.  

​Key takeaways:. The FCC has banned the sale of new foreign-made routers in the US, and this sweeping order applies to virtually every Wi-Fi router currently available in the US market.. My expert advice is to hold off on purchasing a new router if you can.. Under the current rules, banned routers will no longer receive essential security firmware and software updates after March 1, 2027.. The FCC’s action has effectively frozen the entire market while router companies scramble to gain approval.. More specific information on which router companies will be subject to the ban is expected to become clearer within the next month or two.. In my eight years of writing and reviewing broadband and routers, I’ve rarely seen news that I would describe as unprecedented. The FCC’s recent decision to ban foreign-made routers is absolutely unprecedented.. The sweeping order applies to any router in which any stage of “manufacturing, assembly, design and development” occurs outside the US — in other words, just about any router you can buy right now. The FCC order says that foreign-made routers pose “unacceptable risks” to national security.. The ban doesn’t apply to routers that were already authorized by the FCC — that is, every router that’s currently for sale in the US — and will only impact new models that haven’t been approved yet. That means every router that was available before the order is still available today, and router companies can still restock them using their existing manufacturing processes.. Essentially, the FCC is freezing the entire router market. As William Budington, a technologist for the digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, put it to me, “This is using an extremely blunt instrument.”. Where previous FCC bans have been limited to specific companies, such as last year’s push to ban TP-Link routers, this one affects an entire industry. So where does that leave someone who needs a new Wi-Fi router? Should you buy a model you’ve had your eye on in case it sells out? Or is it better to wait and see which companies the FCC considers foreign-made?. I know what I would do, but I gut-checked my advice with some industry experts. Turns out, we agree.. My advice: Hold off on buying a new router for now. When I first saw the FCC’s announcement, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much chaos this would introduce to the US router market. As I tried to tease out which manufacturers would count as “foreign-made,” it quickly became clear how deeply international the supply chains for routers are.. Understanding the scope of the ban. Take Netgear. While it’s a US-founded and headquartered company, it manufacturers routers in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan. With the exception of Starlink — the company says its newer routers are made entirely in Texas, according to the BBC — I couldn’t find a single router brand that’s homegrown.. I don’t have any issues recommending routers that were