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Forbes
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Wednesday, July 30: Today's Clues And Answers
Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections. Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Tuesday's: It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another game of Connections! It's nice to be back in Montreal after a few weeks visiting family back in Scotland. I'm settling back in quite smoothly, but – as I often do after travelling between several time zones – I have a weird sense of displacement I haven't quite been able to shake just yet. It's not really jet lag, I don't think. More a feeling that I'm a little dislodged in time. It's fine, though. That sensation will pass. I don't think anything will quite beat the feeling I had when flying to California on October 21, 2015. I was literally time traveling on the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown land in during Back to the Future Part II. Now, that one was trippy. Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot, and you're more than welcome to hang out with us. Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes. Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 30 are coming right up. How To Play Connections Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app. You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. What Are Today's Connections Hints? Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today's 16 words are... And the hints for today's Connections groups are: One Word For Each Connections Group Need some extra help? Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory. Let's take a look at one word for each group. Today's Connections word hints are… What Are Today's Connections Groups? Today's Connections groups are... What Are Today's Connections Answers? Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today's Connections answers are... Yeah, I had absolutely no idea what TETRACYCLINE was either. Its presence screamed that there was some wordplay going on, likely making it a purple. The word ends in "line" while TRIANGLE ends in "angle," so I assumed there must be something going on there. I couldn't quite figure out what it was, so I left those alone for a bit. The yellows were straight forward enough despite the potential pitfall of MONORAIL, COACH and TRAIN. After that, I looked at BULGE and GROAN as words that mean "to expand." ABUT made sense with that. The only other word I could think of that might work was VOILA. I submitted those and had the purples... but I was completely wrong about what linked them lmao. They actually refer to tuba (ABUT), bugle (BULGE), organ (GROAN) and viola (VOILA). After that, I was able to make sense of the greens easily enough. As it turns out, I was right about TETRACYCLINE and TRIANGLE involving wordplay, but entirely wrong about what linked them. I would have had absolutely no chance at these, since I don't know much about the Greek language. But hey, I still lucked into a perfect game, so I'm happy. Today's win extends my overall streak to 154 wins. Here's my grid: 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday's game if you need them. P.S. I was quite saddened by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne last week. He is a true rock 'n' roll legend. It was well-known that he wasn't in great health, but for him to pass so soon after his farewell concert was still a shock. This is probably my favorite song of Ozzy's, either in his solo career or with Black Sabbath: Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love! Please follow my blog for more coverage of NYT Connections and other word games, and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Sharing this column with other people who play Connections would be appreciated too. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.
Toronto Star
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
You can't have a ‘Back to the Future' stage musical without the DeLorean. But ‘how is it going to fly?'
When the curtain goes up on 'Back to the Future: The Musical' this week, audiences will expect to see certain things from the classic 1985 film they know and love so well. One is Marty McFly's signature puffy red vest and skateboard. Another is Doc Brown, with his shock of white hair, exclaiming 'Great Scott!' And what would an adaptation be without hearing a couple of those classic Huey Lewis rock songs?
Geek Tyrant
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Hot Wheels Unveils BACK TO THE FUTURE 40th Anniversary Set For SDCC — GeekTyrant
Mattel Creations has revealed a cool collectible Hot Wheels Back to the Future set for the film's 40th anniversary for San Diego Comic-Con 2025. The display box contains the movie's iconic Time Machine, a 1:64-scale DeLorean DMC-12, and Doc Brown's custom GMC Value Van as seen in the first film at Twin Pines Mall. The description reads: Great Scott! Hot Wheels celebrates a red-letter date in the history of science, and the 40th Anniversary of Back to the Future. This iconic scene features the Time Machine and, for the first time, Doc's GMC Value Van – both featuring die-cast construction and Real Riders wheels. Our interactive outer box lets you unfold a ramp from the side, so you can slide out the diorama package just like the Time Machine itself being unloaded for its attempt at the world's first temporal displacement. HOT WHEELS® 40th Anniversary Back to the Future™ Time Machine Set Celebrate 40 years of Back to the Future with this special edition collector set, inspired by the iconic scene when the Time Machine is unveiled. Includes our first-ever 1:64 scale version of Dr. Emmet 'Doc' Brown's GMC Value Van from the first Back to the Future movie, with authentic graphics. Also comes with an updated 1:64 scale edition of the Time Machine, created to celebrate the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con and featuring deco exclusive to this set. Interior window packaging showcases the iconic Twin Pines mall parking lot scene, where Doc's science experiment makes time-traveling history. Packaged in a movie-themed diorama display, packed in a protective outer box. It launches on July 24th and will cost $32. Check it out here.
Globe and Mail
07-07-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Skip the headlines. Your portfolio will thank you for it
There's a popular strategy that investing commentators use to attract clicks these days: 'What to invest in during … .' Whatever the headline news event is, there are plenty of people out there offering expert advice on how investors can best navigate it. Let's try a recent hot topic – what to invest in during a trade war? Or how about: What to invest in during the upcoming recession? What to invest in during high inflation? What to invest in during supply chain disruption? Well, the best way to navigate those events is to ignore them. For long-term investing in stocks, keeping a few characteristics in mind will produce the best results: Put simply, we look for high-quality companies. They are the exactly same set of companies we would turn to to deploy long-term capital no matter what the headlines were saying. Two mistakes we made as portfolio managers - and what we learned from them Now, some of you may wonder why not jump in and out throughout the market cycle? First of all, just like the short-term stock market, macro events are hard to predict. But fortunately, we don't need to predict them, nor would it be productive even if we were able to do so. Let's take a minute to imagine that at the start of 2020, Doc Brown of Back to the Future fame got you the opportunity to travel forward two years solely to read through the headlines of major newspapers. You would learn what was going to occur next: global pandemic, border closures, city lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, labour shortages and high inflation. After you returned to early 2020, how would you plan to position yourself in the stock market? It may look logical to stay as far away from the market as possible. Nonetheless, stocks turned out to have had great years in both 2020 and 2021. What the time travellers were missing is that the stock market is a second-order system, which is to say, it is not the future event – but the consensus view regarding the event – that matters in determining the near-term share price movement. Since it is extremely difficult (if not impossible) to gauge other market participants' perception with consistent accuracy, a laser focus on high-quality companies that would survive and even thrive when facing external adversities is the best bet for investors to harvest decent risk-adjusted returns for the long run, in our opinion. On the contrary, any attempt to time the market based on macro forecasting could be costly (e.g., missing out in 2020/21). If Doc Brown ever offers you a ride to the future, just be sure to ignore all the news headlines when thinking about your investment strategy. Jason Del Vicario, CFA, is portfolio manager at HillsideWealth | iA Private Wealth Inc. Steven Chen, MBA, is global analytics associate at the firm. More from these authors: How to find stocks with an 'economic moat' How to beat the pros, Part 1: Choose the right number of stocks to hold How to beat the pros, Part 2: Simplify by focusing on stocks of high quality How to beat the pros, Part 3: Identifying high-quality stocks How to beat the pros, Part 4: A Canadian stock we think will continue to outperform How to beat the pros, Part 5: Two stocks you never heard of that fit our investing strategy How to beat the pros, Part 6: An off-the-radar stock from overseas that we think has great potential
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Back to the Future' at 40: All the ways the Robert Zemeckis classic was snubbed by the Oscars
Great Scott! Back to the Future has hit the big 4-0, roughly half the speed required to send Doc Brown's DeLorean back and forth in time. But the Robert Zemeckis-directed movie doesn't feel like ancient history, even if it first zipped into theaters in the distant past of the 1980s. Fueled by pedal to the metal pacing, ingeniously-designed set-pieces and the dynamic duo Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future, released on July 3, 1985, remains an eternally youthful summer blockbuster even while other studio films of that era are rattling around with broken parts. Genius isn't always recognized in its time, though, which is why the movie's relatively poor showing at the 58th Academy Awards — held on March 24, 1986 — hangs extra-heavy four decades later. Back to the Future received four nominations and took home a single statue as Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa emerged as the evening's big winner. Here's a look back at which Oscars the movie was up for... and which categories it should have been contending in. More from Gold Derby The 'Jurassic' rebirth that never happened: How an Oscar-nominated screenwriter almost took the franchise in a wild new direction 'Jurassic World Rebirth' set to take a bite out of July 4 weekend box office Best Original Screenplay Zemeckis and collaborator Bob Gale were rightly recognized by voters for their expertly crafted script, which took five years to develop into the finished product. That calibration wasn't just about getting the action right — it was also always keeping the McFly clan front and center. "It's a movie about family," Gale remarked in one interview about why the film endures. "Movies about families always resonate." The other nominees: Brazil, The Official Story, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Witness (winner) Best Original Song Did you hear the news? Huey Lewis came thisclose to winning an Oscar for "The Power of Love," only to see the statue go to another '80s legend — Lionel Richie for "Say You, Say Me." No shade on Richie, but we say that the Lewis peppy tune has more staying power. The other nominees: The Color Purple, White Nights (2 nominations, 1 win), A Chorus Line Best Sound You win some, you lose some. In this case, Back to the Future lost one of the two Sound statues it was up for — back when the Academy Awards still had two Sound categories — but got the one it really deserved. The other nominees: A Chorus Line, Ladyhawke, Out of Africa (winner), Silverado Best Sound Effects Editing Back to the Future's lone win at least acknowledged its skillfully edited audio effects, from the screeching tires of the DeLorean to lightning striking the Hill Valley clock tower. Don't call it a consolation prize — consider it well-rewarded expertise. The other nominees: Ladyhawke, Rambo: First Blood Part II Best Picture The push-pull between art and commerce has long been a source of tension when it comes to the Oscars — remember Steven Spielberg's Jaws snub? But Back to the Future is a prime example of great artistry in service of lucrative commercial entertainment. Sometimes the movie that tops the annual box office isn't the best of Best Pictures (looking at you Batman Forever), but in 1985 it was. The actual nominees: The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Out of Africa (winner), Prizzi's Honor, Witness Best Director Back to the Future catches Zemeckis as he closes out the wunderkind phase of his career and enters Phase 2 — established hitmaker. He would go on to helm more sophisticated and technically complex movies, several of which also should have merited nominations. (His absence from the Best Director category for the still-remarkable Who Framed Roger Rabbit? smarts.) But this one has all of the effects sizzle along with plenty of emotional stakes. The actual nominees: Héctor Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman), John Huston (Prizzi's Honor), Akira Kurosawa (Ran), Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, winner), Peter Weir (Witness) Best Actor Michael J. Fox famously replaced Eric Stoltz midway through production, and hit the ground running as the quintessential '80s everyteen-turned-time traveler. It's not a showy star turn, but if he slows down for even a minute, the movie dies. Maybe instead of an Oscar, they could have awarded him an Olympics-style gold medal. The actual nominees: Harrison Ford (Witness), James Garner (Murphy's Romance), William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, winner), Jack Nicolson (Prizzi's Honor), Jon Voight (Runaway Train) Best Supporting Actor Christopher Lloyd brought the mad scientist trope out of the '50s and into the '80s — but really, Doc Brown is a timeless character. While the Taxi star isn't shy about playing the buffoon, he always grounds his portrayal in the good doctor's emotional connection to Marty. "Michael came on [set] and the electricity was there from the get-go and it never went away," Lloyd once said of his co-star. "It's still there when we get together today." The actual nominees: Don Ameche (Cocoon, winner), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa), William Hickey (Prizzi's Honor), Robert Loggia (Jagged Edge), Eric Roberts (Runaway Train) Best Visual Effects There's a reason why almost everyone believes that DeLoreans really can travel through time. The wizards at Industrial Light & Magic created a sound-and-light show accompanying each era-jump that seems like a natural add-on to an already-futuristic looking car. ILM can also boast to creating the largest lightning bolt in history for the climactic sequence, which seems like an Oscar-worthy achievement on its own. The actual nominees: Cocoon (winner), Return to Oz, Young Sherlock Holmes Best Original Score Be honest — who among us hasn't cranked up Alan Silvestri's Back to the Future theme when our odometer approaches 88 MPH on an open stretch of highway? That soaring piece of music is as instantly recognizable as any '80s Oscar-winning score, from Chariots of Fire to The Little Mermaid. Its snub was and still is completely tone deaf. The actual nominees: Agnes of God, The Color Purple, Out of Africa (winner), Silverado, Witness Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Batman 2': Returning cast, script finalized Tom Cruise movies: 17 greatest films ranked worst to best 'It was wonderful to be on that ride': Christian Slater talks his beloved roles, from cult classics ('Heathers,' 'True Romance') to TV hits ('Mr. Robot,' 'Dexter: Original Sin') Click here to read the full article.
