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NYT Connections Hints for Today: Meanings of Each Word for Aug. 29, 2026
Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints, or wondering why the puzzle is trending today? These clues can help you understand the meanings behind today’s words without revealing the answers.

Mashable has also published daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years. While today’s guide focuses on meanings rather than conventional hints, recognizing that several words have completely unrelated definitions can itself be a useful clue. NYT Connections often includes word-within-a-word clues and other visual patterns.

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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for August 29, 2026

Today’s NYT Connections Word Meanings
- Alternator: An electrical generator.
- Battery: A device that produces electricity.
- Engine: A machine that changes energy into movement.
- Radiator: A device that heats a space.
- Control: To have power over something or someone.
- Escape: To get away.
- Shift: A sudden change.
- Space: An open area.
- Chopped: Cut into pieces.
- Greek: From Greece.
- House: A dwelling.
- Wedge: A dividing force.
- At last: Finally.
- Herald: To proclaim an event.
- Hydrant: A public water pipe.
- Tritone: A musical interval made of three tones.
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08/28/2026
Howard Stern’s SiriusXM Channel 101 Dropped After a Dozen Staffers Are Laid Off

Stern was spotted with his wife, Beth Stern, at a high-profile event in the Hamptons on Wednesday.

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08/28/2026
Wordle Today: Answer and Hints for August 29, 2026

Today’s Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you work in healthcare. If you want to see the solution immediately, scroll to the bottom of this article. Otherwise, use the clues and strategies below to solve the puzzle yourself.

Where did Wordle come from?

Engineer Josh Wardle originally created Wordle as a gift for his partner. The game quickly became an international phenomenon, attracting thousands of daily players worldwide.

Fan-created Wordle variations soon followed, including the battle royale game Squabble, the music-identification game Heardle, and Dordle and Quordle, which require players to guess multiple words at once.

Wordle became so popular that The New York Times eventually purchased it. TikTok creators have also attracted audiences by livestreaming their Wordle games.

What is the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is ultimately a matter of personal preference. However, a strategic opening guess can help you identify the answer more quickly.

Consider choosing a word with at least two different vowels and several common consonants, such as S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The complete archive of past Wordle puzzles was once available for anyone to play at any time. It was later removed after the website’s creator said the decision was made at the request of The New York Times.

The New York Times subsequently launched its own Wordle Archive, which is available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

Wordle may feel more difficult, but the game is not actually harder than it was when it first launched. Players looking for an additional challenge can enable Wordle’s Hard Mode.

Today’s Wordle hints

Hint: Today’s Wordle answer is a bodily fluid.

Double letter: The letter O appears twice.

Starting letter: Today’s Wordle begins with B.

Today’s Wordle answer

Make your final guesses before revealing the solution.

The answer to today’s Wordle is BLOOD.

If you didn’t solve it this time, don’t worry. A new Wordle puzzle will be available tomorrow, with more hints to help you solve it.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? Check out the latest Strands hints and answers for help with today’s puzzle.

Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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08/28/2026
NYT Pips Hints and Answers for August 29, 2026
Need help solving the New York Times game Pips for August 29, 2026? Below are progressive hints and answers for the Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels.

How to play Pips

Players familiar with dominoes will recognize the basic mechanics of Pips. Domino-style tiles can be placed vertically or horizontally and connected to one another. Unlike traditional dominoes, however, Pips uses color-coded spaces with specific conditions. Connected tiles do not necessarily need to match.

The conditions apply to the tile portions inside each colored space. When a space shows a single number, all the pips within that space must add up to the stated total. In some cases, only half of a domino tile is contained within a colored space.
- Number: All the pips in the space must add up to the displayed number.
- Equal: Every domino half in the space must contain the same number of pips.
- Not Equal: Every domino half in the space must contain a completely different number of pips.
- Less than: Every domino half in the space must add up to less than the displayed number.
- Greater than: Every domino half in the space must add up to more than the displayed number.
Spaces without color coding have no conditions for the portions of dominoes placed within them.

Easy Pips hints and answers for August 29
- Greater Than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. The answer is 6-5, placed horizontally.
- Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 6-5, placed horizontally; 2-4, placed horizontally.
- Less Than (5): Everything in this space must be less than 5. The answer is 2-4, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (4): Everything in this space must be greater than 4. The answer is 5-4, placed horizontally.
- Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally; 5-4, placed horizontally.
- Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally; 6-6, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. The answer is 6-6, placed horizontally.
Medium Pips hints and answers for August 29
- Equal (0): Everything in this space must be equal to 0. The answer is 0-0, placed vertically.
- Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 1-5, placed horizontally; 1-0, placed vertically.
- Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 1-5, placed horizontally; 3-6, placed horizontally.
- Equal (0): Everything in this space must be equal to 0. The answer is 1-0, placed vertically; 0-6, placed horizontally.
- Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 6-6, placed horizontally; 3-6, placed horizontally; 0-6, placed horizontally.
- Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 2-4, placed vertically.
Hard Pips hints and answers for August 29
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 1-0, placed horizontally; 0-4, placed vertically.
- Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. The answer is 0-4, placed vertically.
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-2, placed horizontally; 0-6, placed vertically.
- Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally; 0-2, placed horizontally; 2-1, placed horizontally.
- Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally; 1-0, placed horizontally; 1-1, placed vertically; 2-1, placed horizontally.
- Number (12): Everything in this space must add up to 12. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 6-3, placed vertically.
- Number (12): Everything in this space must add up to 12. The answer is 6-6, placed vertically.
- Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 5-1, placed vertically; 5-2, placed vertically.
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-0, placed vertically.
- Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 6-3, placed vertically; 3-3, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (1): Everything in this space must be greater than 1. The answer is 5-2, placed vertically.
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08/28/2026
NYT Connections Hints and Answers for August 29, 2026
Today’s NYT Connections puzzle may be easier for mechanics, with one category focused on car parts. Connections is one of The New York Times’ most popular word games, challenging players to find the “common threads between words.”

Like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight with a new set of words that can become progressively more difficult. Use the hints and strategies below to solve today’s puzzle, or skip to the answer if you want the solution immediately.

What is NYT Connections?

Connections is a daily word game from The New York Times that has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping create the game and bring it to the publication’s Games section.

Players can access Connections in a web browser or on a mobile device. Each puzzle presents 16 words, which must be divided into four groups of four words that share a common connection.

The categories can include anything from book titles and software to country names. Although several words may appear to belong together, there is only one correct solution for each puzzle.

Correctly identifying a group removes those four words from the board. Each incorrect guess counts as a mistake, and players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.

You can rearrange and shuffle the board to make potential connections easier to spot. The groups are color-coded by difficulty: yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. As with Wordle, Connections results can be shared on social media.

Hints for today’s Connections categories

Want clues without being given the categories outright? Try these hints:
- Yellow: Auto parts
- Green: Leafy meals
- Blue: Type it up
- Purple: Ancient stories
Today’s Connections categories

Need more help? Today’s groups are:
- Yellow: Under the hood of a car
- Green: Kinds of salad
- Blue: Keyboard keys
- Purple: Starting with figures from Greek myth
NYT Connections answers for today

The solution to today’s Connections puzzle, No. 1174, is:
- Under the hood of a car: ALTERNATOR, BATTERY, ENGINE, RADIATOR
- Kinds of salad: CHOPPED, GREEK, HOUSE, WEDGE
- Keyboard keys: CONTROL, ESCAPE, SHIFT, SPACE
- Starting with figures from Greek myth: AT LAST, HERALD, HYDRANT, TRITON
Looking for more daily puzzles? Find today’s Wordle answer, get the NYT Strands hints you need, or visit Mashable’s games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, and free crossword puzzles.

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08/28/2026
NYT Strands Hints and Answers for August 29, 2026
Today’s NYT Strands hints are helpful if you’re a good cook. Strands, The New York Times’ advanced word-search game, puts a twist on the traditional format. Players form words by linking letters up, down, left, right, or diagonally, with paths that can change direction to create unusual shapes.

Every letter in the grid is part of an answer. All solutions share a common theme, along with the “spangram,” a special word or phrase that summarizes the theme and stretches across the grid horizontally or vertically.

Unlike Wordle and Connections, Strands gives players an opaque hint rather than a word list, making it a more time-consuming brain teaser. If you’re stuck or do not have at least 10 minutes to solve today’s puzzle, these NYT Strands hints can help you make progress at your own pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme

Now we’re cooking!

The answers are adjectives related to food.

Today’s NYT Strands theme explained

Today’s words describe noises associated with food.

NYT Strands spangram hint

Today’s spangram runs vertically through the grid.

NYT Strands spangram answer

The spangram is Sounds Tasty.

NYT Strands word list for August 29
- Splatter
- Crackle
- Sounds Tasty
- HIss
- Gurgle
- Bubble
- Sizzle
For more daily online games, visit Mashable’s Games page for additional hints. The site also offers Mahjong, Sudoku, a free crossword, and other puzzles through its games hub.

If you’re looking for a different day’s puzzle, check the solution to today’s Strands.

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08/28/2026
Hurdle Hints and Answers for August 29, 2026

If you enjoy daily word games such as Wordle, Hurdle offers five rounds of increasingly challenging clues. Each round shows which letters are correct, misplaced, or absent from your guesses.

Solving one hurdle unlocks the next round, with the previous answer used as your first guess. That may provide several clues—or none—depending on the words. In the final hurdle, all four previous answers appear as clues, with correct and misplaced letters highlighted.

Keep in mind that the number of times a letter is highlighted in earlier guesses does not necessarily indicate how many times that letter appears in the final answer.

Today’s Hurdle answers

Hurdle Word 1

Hint: A natural clay pigment.

Answer: OCHRE

Hurdle Word 2

Hint: A group.

Answer: BUNCH

Hurdle Word 3

Hint: A courtesy.

Answer: FAVOR

Hurdle Word 4

Hint: A spicy alcoholic drink.

Answer: TODDY

Final Hurdle

Hint: Unhealthy.

Answer: FATTY

If you need more puzzles after solving Hurdle, Mashable’s games hub features Mahjong, Sudoku, free crosswords, and more.

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08/28/2026
NYT Connections Sports Edition Hints and Answers for August 29, 2026
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle should be a little easier for baseball fans. The daily sports-themed word game from The New York Times challenges players to find the “common threads between words.”

Like Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition resets at midnight, with a new set of increasingly difficult words each day. Use the hints below to help solve today’s puzzle, or scroll to the answer if you want the solution.

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What is Connections: Sports Edition?

Connections: Sports Edition is a daily word game launched by The New York Times in association with The Athletic, the newspaper’s sports-focused property. It is available on web browsers and mobile devices.

Each puzzle contains 16 words that must be divided into four groups of four words with something in common. The categories may include names, nicknames, sports, titles, or other related terms. Although several words may appear to fit together, there is only one correct solution.

Correctly identifying a group removes its four words from the board. Incorrect guesses count as mistakes, and players can make up to four mistakes before the game ends.

Players can rearrange and shuffle the board to make the connections easier to spot. The groups are also color-coded by difficulty: yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. As with Wordle, players can share their results on social media.

SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL.

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories

Want a clue about the categories without revealing them outright? Try these hints:
- Yellow: To box
- Green: Legendary big man nicknames
- Blue: Famous White Sox
- Purple: US-based sports and games
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need more help? Today’s four categories are:
- Yellow: Boxing Terms
- Green: Nicknames of Hall of Fame Centers, With “The”
- Blue: White Sox in the Hall of Fame
- Purple: American____
Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition answer

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to solve today’s puzzle before the solutions are revealed.

The solution to today’s Connections: Sports Edition #705 is:
- Boxing Terms: CROSS, HOOK, JAB, UPPERCUT
- Nicknames of Hall of Fame Centers, With “The”: ADMIRAL, BIG ARISTOTLE, BIG DIPPER, DREAM
- White Sox in the Hall of Fame: FISK, FOX, MINOSO, THOMAS
- American____: FOOTBALL, LEAGUE, NINJA WARRIOR, PHAROAH
Don’t worry if you didn’t solve it today. A new Connections: Sports Edition puzzle will be available tomorrow, with more hints to help you along the way.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.

Looking for more puzzles? Visit Mashable’s games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crosswords, and more.

Not looking for today’s puzzle? Here’s the solution to today’s Connections.

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08/28/2026
Celebrity Stylist Law Roach Reveals His Past Paychecks

Celebrity styling comes with a steep price tag, and Law Roach has revealed how much he once charged clients to achieve a million-dollar look.

Roach, a self-described “Image Architect,” detailed his former client fees before becoming one of Hollywood’s…

Source: www.eonline.com

08/28/2026
RHOSLC Alum Jen Shah Completes Prison Sentence After Home Confinement

Jen Shah has completed her federal prison sentence.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum commemorated the end of her sentence after being adjudged in 2023 to six and a half years in prison for wire fraud due to her role in a…

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08/28/2026