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NYT Strands hints, answers for January 14

NYT Strands hints, answers for January 14

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If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special, word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections. If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at …

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Jan. 2, #101

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Jan. 2, #101

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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. Connections: Sports Edition delivered an all-graphic game grid yesterday to start off 2025. Today, there are just two images, both of athletes. If you know who they are, you’re a step ahead, but if their smiling faces don’t ring a bell, today’s puzzle could be a struggle. Shake it off (that’s a hint to one of the photos) and read on for hints and answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle. For now, the game is in beta, which means the Times is testing it out to see if it’s popular, before adding it to the site’s Games app. You can play it daily for now for free — and then we’ll have to see if it sticks around.  Read more: NYT Has a Connections Game for Sports Fans. I Tried It Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups Here are four hints for …

Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions

Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions

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Thank you so much to all the readers who tuned in live to participate in the second installment of our question and answer series focused on artificial intelligence. I was thrilled to see so many questions come in before the event, as well as all the questions that were dropped into the chat during our conversation. Missed the broadcast? We’ve got your back. Below is a replay of this event that WIRED subscribers can watch whenever. Also, the livestream from the first one is available here. I started off the chat with a couple quick demos showing how to use the image and voice features built into chatbots, including an example of how it’s possible to interact with ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode as a kind of Duolingo-style language learning tool. For a deeper dive into a few of the live questions we discussed, I’d suggest checking out my AI advice column for December, tackling questions about proper attribution for generative tools and how to teach the next generation about AI. If you’re interested in experimenting …

NYT Connections hints and answers for December 5: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #543.

NYT Connections hints and answers for December 5: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #543.

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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections? The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have been deleted …

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Jan. 2, #101

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Nov. 24, #62

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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. Have you been enjoying the New York Times Connections puzzle? Now there’s a new version of the game focusing on sports-related words. It’s simply called Connections: Sports Edition, and we have hints and the answers. For now, the game is in beta, which means the Times is testing it out to see if it’s popular before adding it to the site’s Games app. You can play it daily for the next few weeks for free — and then we’ll have to see if it sticks around.  Read more: NYT Has a Connections Game for Sports Fans. I Tried It How to play Connections: Sports Edition The rules are pretty much the same as the regular game. You’re given 16 words and asked to put them into four groups that are somehow connected. The main difference is that all the words and categories have …

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

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OpenAI’s latest AI models are shockingly bad at being right. BS Generator OpenAI has released a new benchmark, dubbed “SimpleQA,” that’s designed to measure the accuracy of the output of its own and competing artificial intelligence models. In doing so, the AI company has revealed just how bad its latest models are at providing correct answers. In its own tests, its cutting edge o1-preview model, which was released last month, scored an abysmal 42.7 percent success rate on the new benchmark. In other words, even the cream of the crop of recently announced large language models (LLMs) is far more likely to provide an outright incorrect answer than a right one — a concerning indictment, especially as the tech is starting to pervade many aspects of our everyday lives. Wrong Again Competing models, like Anthropic’s, scored even lower on OpenAI’s SimpleQA benchmark, with its recently released Claude-3.5-sonnet model getting only 28.9 percent of questions right. However, the model was far more inclined to reveal its own uncertainty and decline to answer — which, given the …

NYT Connections hints and answers for October 31: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #508.

NYT Connections hints and answers for October 31: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #508.

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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for October 31’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections? The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have been …

Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Oct. 27, #504

Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Oct. 27, #504

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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 and Strands puzzles. Need the answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle? To me, Wordle is more of a vocabulary test, but Connections is more of a brainteaser. You’re given 16 words and asked to put them into four groups that are somehow connected. Sometimes they’re obvious, but game editor Wyna Liu knows how to trick you by using words that can fit into more than one group. Read on for today’s Connections hints and answers. There’s also news in the Connections world. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one it’s had for some time for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. And players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they …

NYT mini crossword answers for October 26

NYT mini crossword answers for October 26

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The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe. With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it. So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player’s flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered. Mashable Top Stories SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable Here are the clues and answers to NYT’s The Mini for Saturday, October 26, 2024: Across “What ___?” (end of a riddle) Cheer for a diva 2024 Chappell Roan hit spelled out in its chorus Conjunction that “et” (French) or “y” (Spanish) translates to Danson of “Cheers” Place to dive in a pool What a bloodhound tracks Activist Yoko SEE ALSO: Hurdle hints and answers for October 25 SEE ALSO: …

NYT Connections hints and answers for October 24: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #501.

NYT Connections hints and answers for October 24: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #501.

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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for October 24’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections? The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have been …