If you've been having trouble with any of the connections or words in Monday's puzzle, you're not alone, and these hints should definitely help you out. Plus, I'll reveal the answers further down.

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. By New York Times Games Good morning, dear connectors. Welcome to today’s Connections forum, where you can give and ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. Looking for a little help with your Sunday Connections ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

It’s widely recognized that the crises of loneliness, disconnection, and social fragmentation are touching nearly every aspect of our lives, from personal well-being to public health to democracy ...

It’s a strange thing to be surrounded by people and still feel alone. That was me. I had all these connections, all these people just a text or a DM away, but none of it felt real. Not the way it used ...

I was walking through Union Square in New York City—surrounded by people, yet feeling completely alone. The crowd was deep in iPhone-land, headphones sealing them off, faces lit by screens they ...

Social connectedness is vital to well-being, but members of Gen Z are hesitant about interacting with one another in today’s online and polarized world, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. That ...

In a world obsessed with metrics, KPIs, and performance dashboards, there’s a quiet, transformational force reshaping the way we think about leadership. It’s not a strategy, a new AI tool, or the ...