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Forbes
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT Connections Today: Friday, July 25 Hints And Answers (#775)
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 Thursday's: Hey there, Connectors! The weekend is almost upon us, but you won't want to go into it with a broken streak. Oh, no no. So, your pal Kris is here to help make sure that number ticks up by one yet again. The FIFA Club World Cup has only just wrapped up, but already the European soccer season is getting underway with qualifiers for continental competitions. My beloved Dundee United are back in such competitions for the first time in a few years. We have a few rounds to get through before we get to the UEFA Conference League (the third-tier European continental competition) proper. Keep your fingers crossed for us, eh? 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 Friday, July 25 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... The MUM, MA and MOTHER trifecta seemed like a red herring, in large part because there wasn't anything else I saw that went with them. But more importantly because I quickly saw two other groups that two of the words would fit into. The first of those turned out to be the yellows. "Keeping MUM" is an expression meaning to keep something secret. The greens were up next after that. They refer to Indiana (IN), Massachusetts (MA), Ohio (OH) and Oklahoma (OK). States aren't one of my strong suits, but I did know those abbreviations. Baseball isn't a strong area for me either, but I do know enough to have figured out the blues here. Last but not least, BED and MOTHER were enough for me to figure out the purple connection. A regular rainbow this time, and one that takes me to a single game away from a 150 win streak. Here's my grid for this one: 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. I'll be back with you all here on Monday. In the meantime, you can check out my weekend editions of this column in my newsletter, Pastimes. P.S. I really love mashups (a Frankensteined track that splices at least two songs together). Apparently, one that blends "Hard to Explain" by The Strokes and "Genie in a Bottle" by Christina Aguilera is a bit of a classic in the scene, and yet I had never heard of it until this week. It's very good! I enjoyed this quite a lot: Here's another mashup I had never heard until a few days ago. It also blends two songs I love – "Toxic" by Britney Spears and "Change (In the House of Flies)" by Deftones -- to create something very cool: 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.
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Characters You Won't See At The Garden Anymore
Nowadays, when you go to a Rangers game, you get more than just a game; you get a show.

Yahoo
8 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cardinals host the Padres to open 4-game series
San Diego Padres (55-47, second in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (52-51, fourth in the NL Central) St. Louis; Thursday, 7:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Yu Darvish (0-2, 6.08 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Cardinals: Sonny Gray (9-4, 4.04 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 123 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cardinals -138, Padres +116; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the San Diego Padres on Thursday to start a four-game series. St. Louis has a 52-51 record overall and a 29-20 record at home. Cardinals hitters are batting a collective .252, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB play. San Diego has gone 24-29 on the road and 55-47 overall. Padres pitchers have a collective 3.60 ERA, which ranks sixth in MLB play. The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Brendan Donovan has 24 doubles and eight home runs for the Cardinals. Willson Contreras is 13 for 41 with five doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games. Luis Arraez has a .285 batting average to lead the Padres, and has 18 doubles, four triples and five home runs. Xander Bogaerts is 13 for 37 with a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games. LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 3-7, .264 batting average, 5.29 ERA, outscored by 15 runs Padres: 6-4, .259 batting average, 2.48 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs INJURIES: Cardinals: Thomas Saggese: day-to-day (undisclosed), Nolan Gorman: 10-Day IL (back), Lars Nootbaar: 10-Day IL (ribs), Zack Thompson: 60-Day IL (lat) Padres: Michael King: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (forearm), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow) ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.


Associated Press
8 hours ago
- Sport
- Associated Press
Cardinals host the Padres to open 4-game series
San Diego Padres (55-47, second in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (52-51, fourth in the NL Central) St. Louis; Thursday, 7:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Yu Darvish (0-2, 6.08 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Cardinals: Sonny Gray (9-4, 4.04 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 123 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cardinals -138, Padres +116; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the San Diego Padres on Thursday to start a four-game series. St. Louis has a 52-51 record overall and a 29-20 record at home. Cardinals hitters are batting a collective .252, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB play. San Diego has gone 24-29 on the road and 55-47 overall. Padres pitchers have a collective 3.60 ERA, which ranks sixth in MLB play. The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Brendan Donovan has 24 doubles and eight home runs for the Cardinals. Willson Contreras is 13 for 41 with five doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games. Luis Arraez has a .285 batting average to lead the Padres, and has 18 doubles, four triples and five home runs. Xander Bogaerts is 13 for 37 with a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games. LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 3-7, .264 batting average, 5.29 ERA, outscored by 15 runs Padres: 6-4, .259 batting average, 2.48 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs INJURIES: Cardinals: Thomas Saggese: day-to-day (undisclosed), Nolan Gorman: 10-Day IL (back), Lars Nootbaar: 10-Day IL (ribs), Zack Thompson: 60-Day IL (lat) Padres: Michael King: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (forearm), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow) ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.


Washington Post
12 hours ago
- Sport
- Washington Post
Atlanta beats Mercury 90-79 as Brittney Griner returns to Phoenix for first time with Dream
PHOENIX — Allisha Gray scored 28 points, Brittney Griner had 17 points and eight rebounds against her former team and the Atlanta Dream beat the Phoenix Mercury 90-79 on Wednesday night. Griner made her return to Phoenix where she played 11 seasons with the Mercury, helping lead them to the 2014 WNBA title and an appearance in the 2021 finals. The Mercury honored Griner with a tribute video before the game, with longtime teammate Diana Taurasi sitting courtside. Gray gave Atlanta an 84-71 lead with 3:03 left before Sami Whitcomb made 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions to get Phoenix within seven points. Griner answered with a basket in the lane to extend Atlanta's lead to 86-77. Jordin Canada added 14 points and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored 11 for Atlanta (14-10), which won for the second time in five games. Rhyne Howard, Atlanta's second-leading scorer at 16.5 points per game, did not play. Gray made 10 of 16 shots for her 10th 20-point game this. Satou Sabally and Kahleah Copper returned to the starting lineup for Phoenix (15-8) after being out since July 3 due to injuries. Sabally finished with 13 points, Copper added 10 and DeWanna Bonner scored 18. Alyssa Thomas had seven points, 11 rebounds and nine assists. Gray scored 13 points in the first half to help Atlanta take a 39-34 lead. Phoenix shot just 29.7% from the field, including 3 of 15 from 3-point range, but stayed close by making all nine of its free-throw attempts. ___ AP WNBA: