A Connections puzzle is the perfect wintery, December activity, especially with Newsweek here to help you through the tricky parts. The brainteaser was launched by The New York Times in June 2023 and has gone on to become the newspaper's second-most played game behind Wordle, another word-based puzzle.

Looking for help with today's NYT Strands puzzle? Here's an extra hint to help you uncover the right words, as well as all of today's answers and Spangram.

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 and Strands puzzles. There are plenty of other online word games now,

Newsweek has compiled a quick list of hints and tips to help you guess Monday's "Wordle" if you're looking for helping hand.

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed.

The puzzle developed during the COVID lockdown by Josh Wardle, a software engineer based in New York, who simply wanted a game "for me and my partner to enjoy." Wardle released Wordle to the general public in October 2021,

Looking for help with today's New York Times Wordle? Here are hints, clues and commentary to help you solve today's Wordle and sharpen your guessing game.

It may be that you're a Wordle newcomer and you're not completely sure how to play the game. We're here to help with that too. Wordle is a deceptively simple daily word game that first emerged in 2021.

Newsweek has provided a host of handy tips and clues to help you over the finish line with today's brainteaser.