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How’s your week going? Well it could be about to get better still, or take a turn for the worse, depending on how you fare with today’s Quordle. Good luck! Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles. Need them for Quordle? Simply scroll down…  SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Quordle today (game #870) – hint #1 – Vowels How many different vowels are in Quordle today? • The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). Quordle today (game #870) – hint #2 – repeated letters Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters? • The number of Quordle […]

Happy 100th puzzle, Strands! Will it still be going in another 100? Will it make it out of beta? We’ll have to wait and see – but in the meantime, there’s today’s edition to play. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #100) – hint #1 – today’s theme What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands? • Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Hold up… NYT Strands today (game #100) – hint #2 – clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. TABOOSHOTSTOPROSEPOSEPOST NYT Strands today (game #100) – hint #3 – spangram What is a hint for today’s spangram? • Please stand up NYT Strands today (game #100) – hint #4 – spangram position […]

Today’s Quordle is potentially more difficult than some – so you may want some help in solving it. Fortunately, help is exactly what I can give you, via my hints below. Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles. Need them for Quordle? Simply scroll down…  SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Quordle today (game #869) – hint #1 – Vowels How many different vowels are in Quordle today? • The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). Quordle today (game #869) – hint #2 – repeated letters Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters? • The number of […]

Here’s your Monday Quordle, ready to trip you up once again with its combo of four Wordle-style puzzles you have to solve simultaneously. It’s a tricky beast to master, so read on if you need some hints. Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles. Need them for Quordle? Simply scroll down…  SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Quordle today (game #868) – hint #1 – Vowels How many different vowels are in Quordle today? • The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). Quordle today (game #868) – hint #2 – repeated letters Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain […]

The final Quordle of the week is another fairly mundane one. You might find it hard if you don’t get some luck, you might find it easy(ish) if you do. Give it a try and see what happens. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Quordle today (game #865) – hint #1 – Vowels How many different vowels are in Quordle today? • The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). Quordle today (game #865) – hint #2 – repeated letters Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters? • The number of Quordle answers […]

Another day, another set of Quordle puzzles to test your mettle. And if one word game isn’t enough for you, there’s also the Daily Sequence variant, which challenges you to solve four Wordle-style grids consecutively, rather than concurrently as in the standard game – but while using the same letters. It’s all rather complicated to explain, but easy to pick up. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Quordle today (game #863) – hint #1 – Vowels How many different vowels are in Quordle today? • The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). Quordle today […]

Ready for another week of Quordle challenges? Then you’re in the right place. Well, sort of – you’ll need to be on the official Quordle site to actually play it, but you’re in the right place if you want hints to help you solve it. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Quordle today (game #861) – hint #1 – Vowels How many different vowels are in Quordle today? • The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*. * Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). Quordle today (game #861) – hint #2 – repeated letters Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated […]

The weekend comes to an end with a Strands puzzle that may cause some trouble for some people. If you’re one of them, read on for some helpful hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.  SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #91) – hint #1 – today’s theme What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands? • Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Nailed it! NYT Strands today (game #91) – hint #2 – clue words What are some good clue words today? Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. • LORE • COOL • PLANE • ZIPPER • CLEAN • MIST NYT Strands today (game #91) – hint #3 – spangram What is a hint for today’s spangram? • Finger painting? […]

No, it wasn’t just you; Google News suffered a pretty sizable outage this morning, impacting the service on desktop and mobile. Impacted users took to Downdetector and social media to note the issues and that no stories were being populated on the site.  Instead, Google News showed an upside-down ice cream cone with the tagline, “Uh-oh, something went wrong. Please try again.” I confirmed the issue myself and am based in New Jersey, United States, but my TechRadar colleagues experienced the same issues worldwide. Users on Downdetector also noted a spike in outage reports as of 8 AM ET on May 31, 2024.  Google’s Cloud status page still doesn’t show an outage or issue, but the Search Status Dashboard does reflect a “service interruption” around serving specific features in Google Search as of 9:47 AM ET.  The technology giant is working on a fix. Still, it’s unclear if that issue is related to the Google News interruptions […]

Google is rolling out a new feature to Chrome on Android called Minimized Custom Tabs, which, as of now, only works on certain first-party apps. Upon opening a link, you’ll find a downward-facing arrow in the top bar next to the close button, and tapping it shrinks the web page into a “floating picture-in-picture window” in the lower right corner of your screen.  Tapping the window expands it to full screen, returning you to the source website. Better yet, you can drag it almost anywhere on the screen, and if you want to close it, you can pull it towards the bottom. In a recent Chromium Blog post, Google wrote that the update “enables multi-tasking across surfaces” and it serves as a handy tool that lets you save a page for later viewing while you browse the internet, check your email, or are in another app. The feature itself is very similar to YouTube Premium’s PiP (picture-in-picture) […]

Strands is the NYT’s latest attempt to recreate the success of Wordle and Connections. It’s still in beta right now, which means it’s on trial; whether it sticks around will depend on how many play it. I hope it does, because it’s good fun and often a real challenge. Read on for some hints and to see how I did today. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #87) – hint #1 – today’s theme What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands? • Today’s NYT Strands theme is… A good workout NYT Strands today (game #87) – hint #2 – clue words What are some good clue words today? Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. • SCALE • BALE • PILL • LIGHT • SLIGHT • WHITE NYT Strands today (game #87) – […]

The battle between YouTube and ad blockers is heating up again, with some YouTube users reporting that videos are now auto-skipping to the end if they’re using extensions to block advertisements. The new YouTube tactic has been widely reported on Reddit (via 9to5Google), with ad blocker users revealing that video playback immediately skips to the end of their video. This apparently continues to happen even if the video is immediately replayed. While Google hasn’t officially stated that this is a new tactic for dealing with ad blockers, it has escalated its crackdown on apps and extensions that remove advertisements in its videos over the past few months.  For example, in April a Google post in a YouTube Community forum stated that viewers who use third-party apps like NewPipe “may experience buffering issues or see the error “The following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch a video”. This new auto-skipping behavior appears to […]