NYT Strands today: hints, spangram and answers for Wednesday, July 31
Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle.
Yellow News
The "perfect" Pokemon Yellow romhack alters everything annoying about the classic Gen 1 game while still keeping its best glitches and quirks intact
A team of dedicated Pokemon players has created what they're calling the "perfect Pokemon Yellow romhack," which is full of incredible quality-of-life improvements and tweaks that make replaying the classic first-generation game much more enjoyable.
NYT Connections: hints and answers for Wednesday, July 31
Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.
Star Wars Outlaws will finally let us turn off that annoying yellow paint on every climbing surface
Of all the cyclical videogame debates that crop up on social media, few get me as riled up as whether or not developers should be painting objects yellow. Making interactable objects more noticeable by painting them a distinct color isn't a new thing for games, but the specific trend of choosing bright yellow streaks to signpost anything and everything—doorways, breakable boxes, levers, ledges, rocks—has awakened a backlash from some who believe this level of handholding works against games by stealing opportunities for players to discover things on their own.
NYT Strands today: hints, spangram and answers for Tuesday, July 30
Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle.
Diablo 4 player finds counterfeit 'legendary' items that shouldn't exist
Diablo 4's legendary items shouldn't look like the ones found by Reddit user Fr0zenberg. They aren't supposed to be yellow like rare items and some of the stats on them shouldn't exist after Blizzard's massive loot rework. Either Fr0zenberg just found the rarest items in the game or the world's first bootleg legendaries.
NYT Strands today: hints, spangram and answers for Monday, July 29
Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle.
If you love Monty Python, you’ll adore this hilarious new game
I was raised on British comedy. It was one of the few things my father and I both agreed on, so I spent plenty of nights watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Mr. Bean. Shows like that became formative, as I grew a love for physical comedy and ridiculous gags by studying silly walks. To an outsider, it all might just look like random jokes that don’t make much sense, but there’s an art for absurdity that the British comedy scene nailed.