​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 pretty tricky, but musicians might find the blue group easy. 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: Time between two things, maybe.. Green group hint: That smarts!. Blue group hint: Rockers know these well.. Purple group hint: You might write one out to pay a bill.. Answers for today’s Connections groups. Yellow group: Interval.. Green group: React to a stubbed toe.. Blue group: Guitar effects pedals.. Purple group: ____ check.. 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 18, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is interval. The four answers are patch, period, spell and stretch.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is react to a stubbed toe. The four answers are curse, hop, wince and yell.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is guitar effects pedals. The four answers are delay, reverb, wah and whammy.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is ____ check. The four answers are blank, coat, rain and reality.. 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 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 is kind of bizarre. Even after I had found some of the answers, the theme didn’t click in my brain until I was almost done with the puzzle. And 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: It follows.. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Not death…. 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:. LEFT, COLE, HOLE, LACK, BILE, LEACH, SOLE, LOSE, LIFE, SEER, STEEL, STERN, FAIL. 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:. COACH, HACK, BLOOD, CYCLE, STYLE, LESSON, PRESERVER. (All words that can follow the word “LIFE.”). Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands puzzle for March 18, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Today’s Strands spangram is AFTERLIFE. To find it, start with the A that is the furthest-left letter on the top row, and wind down.. 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 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 a tough one. It’s an odd word with some unusual letters. 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 and one sometimes vowel.. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter. Today’s Wordle answer begins with A.. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter. Today’s Wordle answer ends with Y.. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning. Today’s Wordle answer means fully, sufficiently, or abundantly.. TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER. Today’s Wordle answer is AMPLY.. Yesterday’s Wordle answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 17, No. 1732, was CLASP.. Recent Wordle answers. March 13, No. 1728: EATEN. March 14, No. 1729: ANKLE. March 15, No. 1730: GRADE. March 16, No. 1731: DRAMA. 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  

​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.. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is fairly diverse. The topics are kind of all over the place — hope you know your movies, for one thing. 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: Snowy season.. Green group hint: Fire it in there.. Blue group hint: Sports equipment.. Purple group hint: Cinema titles.. Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Yellow group: Winter sports.. Green group: Stat for a pitcher.. Blue group: Sports balls.. Purple group: Last words of boxing movies.. 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 18, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is winter sports. The four answers are curling, hockey, luge and skeleton.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is stat for a pitcher. The four answers are hold, quality start, save and win.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is sports balls. The four answers are cue, golf, medicine and ping pong.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is last words of boxing movies. The four answers are Baby (Million Dollar Baby), Balboa (Rocky Balboa), Bull (Raging Bull) and Fighter (The Fighter).. 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.  

​The arrival of new MacBooks each spring marks the start of the season for potential laptop renewal. Apple updated its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines with new M5 processors last week and introduced the new MacBook Neo for budget shoppers. This new raft of machines might have you wondering if it’s time to move on from your current MacBook.. We’ve tested and reviewed the MacBook Neo, M5 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with both M5 Pro and M5 Max chips so you can compare the performance and features of these new M5 machines with those of older generations to help you answer the question: Should I upgrade?. Read more: Is the MacBook Neo more than just a student laptop?. If you have an Intel-based MacBook from the previous decade, the answer is easy: Don’t think twice and buy a new M5 MacBook Air. I prefer the larger 15-inch model and think it’s worth the additional $200 over the 13-inch model, but either the 13.6-inch or 15.3-inch M5 Air will be larger than the 13.3-inch display of an older Intel MacBook Air and offer drastically better performance.. If you have a MacBook Air with one of Apple’s M-series processors, the answer to the question varies, based on whether you have an Air with an M1, M2, M3 or M4 chip. Let’s take a run through each generation of Apple’s M-series MacBook Air roster from the past six years and answer the to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade question for each.. M5 MacBook Air at Apple. What’s new with the M5 MacBook Air?. Let’s start with what’s changed and what hasn’t changed with the M5 MacBook Air that Apple just introduced.. The design and displays remain the same, as do the color choices, with this year’s update. The changes are on the inside, starting with Apple’s M5 processor. With 10 CPU cores and either eight or 10 GPU cores, M5 has the same number of cores as the previous M4 chip, but the M5 introduces a new GPU architecture that puts a neural accelerator on each core to boost AI and ray-tracing performance.. The minimum storage and starting price have both increased. Apple did away with the undersized 256GB SSD and now supplies 512GB of storage at a minimum on the M5 Air. Pricing now starts at $1,099 for the 13-inch M5 MacBook Air and $1,299 for the 15-inch model, an increase of $100 for each. When you consider that Apple previously charged $200 to double the storage on the M4 Air, the M5 Air is $100 less than what you would have paid last year for a MacBook Air with a 512GB SSD.. Read more: Should you choose a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro?. The starting memory remains at 16GB, but the M5 chip supports faster unified memory — 153GBps of bandwidth compared to 120GBps on the M4. Storage, too, got faster. Apple says the SSDs on the M5 models offer twice the read and write speeds of the previous M4 model.. The M5 Air also offers improved networking. It incorporates Apple’s N1 wireless chip for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.. Along with the new M5 processor, this year’s MacBook Air also comes with a 512GB SSD at minimum. Matt Elliott/CN