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Full Solutions to Today’s Geography-Packed Puzzle Number 1116

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Wednesday’s New York Times Connections puzzle leaned heavily on geography, asking players to untangle four distinct categories hidden within a grid of 16 place names and location-derived words, creating a board where nearly every entry could plausibly belong to multiple groups before the correct sorting logic revealed itself.

Puzzle number 1,116 centered on a shared geographic theme, but the four categories used that theme in radically different ways, blending trivia about cocktails, cinema and etymology into what puzzle observers described as a satisfying, moderately difficult challenge that rewarded both cultural knowledge and careful word analysis. Here is a full breakdown of every category and every answer.

Yellow: Things Named After Places

The yellow category, traditionally reserved for the most accessible grouping in each day’s puzzle, gathered four words that originated as place names but have since entered everyday English as common nouns or concepts entirely separate from their geographic origins. Wednesday’s yellow group was: Champagne, China, Cologne and Limerick.

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China refers to fine ceramic tableware, a usage derived from the country that originally produced and exported such goods to Europe centuries ago. The word became so synonymous with the product that it eventually detached from its geographic meaning in everyday speech. Champagne refers to the sparkling wine produced using the méthode champenoise, originally named for the Champagne region of northeastern France, where the production method was developed and where protected designation rules historically governed its use. Cologne refers to eau de cologne, the light, citrus-based fragrance that takes its name from the German city of Cologne, where it was first commercially produced in the early eighteenth century. Limerick refers to the five-line, AABBA-rhyme-scheme comic verse form, whose origin is disputed but commonly linked to the Irish city of Limerick, either through folk songs or through a parlor game popular in the nineteenth century.

Green: Best Picture Winners and Nominees

Wednesday’s green group required a mixture of film history knowledge and geographic pattern recognition, gathering four words that are simultaneously real city names and the titles of Academy Award-recognized films. The green answers were: Casablanca, Chicago, Fargo and Munich.

Casablanca, the 1942 Warner Bros. classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, won three Academy Awards including Best Picture at the 1944 ceremony. It remains one of the most celebrated and widely quoted films in American cinema history. Chicago, the 2002 Rob Marshall-directed musical adaptation of the Broadway stage show, won six Academy Awards at the 2003 ceremony including Best Picture, ending a decades-long drought for movie musicals at Hollywood’s highest honor. Fargo, the 1996 Coen Brothers crime film set largely in the frozen upper Midwest, received seven Academy Award nominations and won two, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Frances McDormand, along with a Best Picture nomination. Munich, Steven Spielberg’s 2005 historical thriller depicting the Israeli intelligence response to the 1972 Olympics massacre, received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director, though it did not win in either of those categories.

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Blue: Places in Cocktail Names

The blue category proved highly accessible for anyone with a working knowledge of classic bar culture, grouping four words whose primary Connections identity is as the geographic component of a named mixed drink. Wednesday’s blue answers were: Cuba, Long Island, Moscow and Singapore.

The Cuba Libre is a straightforward mix of rum, cola and lime, with the name translating roughly to “Free Cuba” and believed to have been coined by American soldiers in Havana around 1900 following the Spanish-American War. Long Island Iced Tea is a deceptively named mixed drink containing vodka, rum, tequila, gin and triple sec alongside cola and lemon juice, known for its high alcohol content relative to its relatively innocuous appearance. The Moscow Mule is a vodka-and-ginger-beer cocktail served over ice in a distinctive copper mug, created in the 1940s by a vodka distributor and a ginger beer maker in a collaboration intended to promote both products simultaneously in the American market. The Singapore Sling is a gin-based cocktail created at the Long Bar of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore around 1915, combining gin with cherry liqueur, Cointreau, Bénédictine, pineapple juice and lime juice, and is one of the signature cocktails of Southeast Asian hospitality culture.

Purple: Starting With Countries

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The purple category, which the New York Times’ Connections format traditionally reserves for the trickiest, most conceptually unconventional grouping, required players to identify four place names whose first component is itself the name of a sovereign nation. This is a different relationship than the yellow category, which gathered words that have become entirely detached from their geographic origins. Wednesday’s purple group asked players to recognize the country hiding in plain sight at the start of a compound geographic name. The purple answers were: Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Indianapolis and Nigeria.

Dominican Republic begins with Dominican, which as an adjective derives from Dominica, a separate island nation in the Eastern Caribbean. Guinea-Bissau begins with Guinea, which is the name of a standalone country in West Africa. Indianapolis, the capital city of Indiana, begins with India, one of the world’s most populous nations. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, begins with Niger, a separate landlocked nation to Nigeria’s northwest. The category is a textbook example of the kind of wordplay that Connections editor Wyna Liu has built her reputation around, since it requires solvers to mentally strip away the familiar, proper-noun framing of each entry and look instead at what is hiding at the beginning of each word.

The New York Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with developing and maintaining Connections since its launch in 2023. The game challenges players to sort 16 words into four groups of four, with up to four incorrect guesses allowed before the puzzle ends. Like Wordle, it resets at midnight in each player’s local time zone, and players worldwide receive the same grid each day. Results can be shared in emoji grid format on social media, continuing the sharing culture that has made the broader suite of New York Times daily word games a fixture in millions of daily routines.

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Dividend alert! Last day to buy M&M, other 32 stocks for dividends worth Rs 473. How many do you own

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As many as 33 stocks have effectively fixed July 3 as the record date for their respective dividends, making today the last day for interested investors to buy the shares for the payouts.

Under SEBI’s T+1 settlement cycle, investors must purchase a company’s shares at least one trading day before the record date to ensure the shares are credited to their demat accounts in time, and they become eligible for the corporate action. Therefore, today is the last opportunity for investors to buy the shares so that they are credited to their accounts by Friday, making them eligible for the dividends.

Mahindra & Mahindra dividend

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) is among the most notable names on the list. The automaker has fixed Friday as the record date for its highest-ever final dividend worth Rs 33 per share. This comes after the company paid a dividend worth Rs 25 last year and Rs 21 in 2024.

The XUV and Scorpio maker has declared 28 dividends since May, 2001. The stock has a dividend yield of 0.81%.

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Tech Mahindra, Union Bank, Shriram Finance dividend

Tech Mahindra has also fixed Friday as the record date for its final dividend of Rs 36 per share. Union Bank of India and Shriram Finance meanwhile will turn ex-record date for their respective final dividend of Rs 5 per share and Rs 6 per share.

Bharat Forge will pay a dividend of Rs 6.5 per share, while Escorts Kubota will pay a dividend of Rs 33 per share. Max Healthcare, Raymond Realty and Redington meanwhile will turn ex-record date for dividend payouts worth Rs 2, Rs 2 and Rs 6 respectively.

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Other stocks turning ex-record date for dividends

Swaraj Engines accounts for the highest dividend payout at Rs 110 per share, followed by JSW Dulux at Rs 50 per share.

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Other companies which will effectively turn ex-record date for their respective dividends tomorrow include Akum Drugs (final dividend of Rs 1 per share and special dividend of Rs 2 per share), Alufluoride (Rs 4 per share), Balaji Amines (Rs 11 per share), BF Investment (Rs 10 per share), Biocon (Rs 0.5 per share), Can Fin Homes (Rs 8 per share), Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries (Rs 1.5 per share), DCM Shriram Industries (Rs 0.4 per share), Exide Industries (Rs 2 per share), Gloster (Rs 20 per share), Greenlam Industries (Rs 0.4 per share), Indus Finance (Rs 0.6 per share), Kirloskar Pneumatic Company (Rs 8.5 per share), Onward Technologies (Rs 8 per share), Sagarsoft (Rs 1.5 per share), SKF India Industrial (Rs 10 per share), SKF India (Rs 40 per share), SML Mahindra (Rs 23.5 per share), Thermax (final dividend of Rs 14 per share and special dividend of Rs 6 per share), Transcorp International (Rs 0.4 per share), Welspun Enterprises (Rs 3 per share) and Siddhika Coatings (Rs 4 per share).

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ADP report June 2026: Private sector adds 98,000 jobs

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Companies in the private sector added 98,000 jobs in June, payroll processing firm ADP said in its latest report on Wednesday.

The figure is below economists’ estimates of a gain of 118,000 jobs and down from the prior month’s unrevised 122,000 payrolls figure.

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Education and health services added 48,000 positions, leading job creation in June. Trade, transportation and utilities added 15,000, financial activities gained 14,000 and other services added 8,000.

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Education and health services led hiring in the month of June, according to ADP. (iStock)

Information added 7,000 jobs, while manufacturing added 5,000. Leisure and hospitality, professional and business services and construction each added 2,000 jobs.

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On the negative side, natural resources and mining lost 5,000 jobs.

People staying in their roles saw their pay climb 4.4% from the prior year, while pay gains for those changing their jobs accelerated to 6.6%.

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U.S. private payrolls climbed by 98,000 in June, ADP said on Wednesday. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

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“The pace of hiring is telling a story of both supply and demand,” said ADP chief economist Nela Richardson. “We know it’s taking people longer to find work, but there also are signs of labor supply constraints in certain industries. For now, the overall effect is a slowdown in job creation.”

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Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel planted a record-setting flag in Miami’s financial core, signing a historic $250-per-square-foot office lease that experts say marks a transition of the West Coast tech exodus from what began as a residential trend into a broader corporate takeover.

As multibillion-dollar liquidity events loom for companies like SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, tech creators and founders are no longer just buying beachfront homes — they are anchoring corporate operations in a booming South Florida commercial ecosystem that insiders describe as “on fire.”

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“Peter Thiel in signing that lease, marking a milestone of $250 square foot, absolutely incredible,” DaGrosa Capital Partners founder and chair Joe DaGrosa told Fox News Digital. “With the signing of that lease, it’d probably take a year or two for a build out. Once that build-out occurs, not just Peter, but his entire team will be coming to Miami, and that entire team will be buyers of homes or renters of homes. So you can see how that has a virtuous-cycle effect of going from commercial to residential.”

“The entire region is just on fire,” Blanca Commercial Real Estate founder, chair and CEO Tere Blanca also told Fox Digital. “With billionaires like Larry Page and Peter Thiel and Sergey Brin and others that have taken residency here, what we expect is that they will continue to grow their footprints in the region, as has always been the case, when people migrate to Miami.”

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The migration of California companies to South Florida has followed a residential wealth exodus, according to DaGrosa and Blanca. Miami’s 55-story office tower 830 Brickell, which will welcome Thiel’s family office, houses companies including Citadel, Microsoft and Thoma Bravo.

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The building, left, that houses the Thoma Bravo, Citadel and soon Peter Thiel’s family office at 830 Brickell Plaza in Miami, Florida, on March 5, 2025. (Getty Images)

Prior to the post-pandemic boom, Class A office space in Brickell typically leased for about $40 to $60 per square foot, DaGrosa noted. Thiel’s reported $250-per-square-foot lease set a local record, competing directly with top-tier rates in markets such as Manhattan and San Francisco.

“Office space is just like anything else. [It] will be priced based on how much supply and how much demand exists,” Blanca said. “And so with the flight to quality that we’ve experienced in office, even before the pandemic, there is a lot of competition to acquire the best-in-class office space, the best located buildings in areas that feel very familiar to these companies and their executives that are moving here from major cities around the country.”

With California officially putting a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot, tech founders and institutional leaders are looking at the quantitative numbers, as Florida provides a defensive shelter where capital can be deployed without aggressive state intervention.

“It’s both a quantitative and a qualitative discussion, and those two points go hand in hand. From a quantitative point of view, there’s a significant tax savings opportunity at the state-level by moving to Miami,” DaGrosa said. 

“The concern, certainly on the part of a lot of Californians, it’s a wonderful lifestyle out there. Would they be sacrificing lifestyle, the qualitative side of things, for the benefits of the quantitative side? I think they’ve come to realize that they can have the best of both,” he continued, “tax savings and a great quality of life here that rivals, and I would argue surpasses, many parts of California.”

“Companies like Palantir that announced headquarters moved to Miami, Peter Thiel being here, is a… statement to other states about the business practices that make Florida so attractive that they’re not seeing in the places where they were residing,” Blanca added.

“With that influx in capital, states can do more, the county and the city can do more to help their constituents. So I view it as a big positive. It’s just more money to go around to improve the quality of life for everyone who’s living here.”

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Critics have argued that Florida lacks the deep engineering talent of Silicon Valley. However, the experts believe local tech hubs are actively shifting. The Miami-Dade Beacon Council reports that tech employment across the county has grown about 25% over the last few years, making it one of the top metro areas for tech job growth in America.

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There’s also notable case studies like Iru — the AI-powered IT and security management firm formerly known as Kandji — a San Francisco-born tech firm that tripled its Miami physical footprint post-pandemic.

“I think that the technology business in Miami should not be compared to, ‘Oh, this is the next Silicon Valley?’” Blanca said. “Miami has its own dynamic and its own opportunity to become a place for founders and entrepreneurs to succeed… And, to protect companies trying to rebuild that in-person culture, Miami is the place to make it happen, right? We have the highest return to office in the country, I think only second to Manhattan. So it really feels like a vibrant and dynamic community for them to attract the right talent and to cultivate the right talents here.”

“I think the rank and file [employees] have to follow the executives, ultimately. If for no other reason, you need face time with your boss to prove your worth,” DaGrosa said. “So I think you’re going to see a lot of folks following these tech giants. And as evidenced by the increased costs in commercial space, it’s being driven up by the fact that these guys want to bring in their teams.”

Rapid growth brings local challenges, including rising housing costs, supply bottlenecks and heavier traffic. However, leaders in Florida’s public and private sectors say they’re working together to address those challenges as corporate investment continues.

“The city’s doing a good job of expediting permitting,” DaGrosa applauded. “That was a big problem for a long time, but that’s changed quite a bit under former Mayor Francis Suarez and the commissioners from Miami-Dade County… Miami has adapted to the needs of the folks who are coming in here.”

“Live Local [Act] that was passed by the legislature about three or four years ago is continuing to evolve to provide that relief that we need in terms of facilitating the development of projects that address workforce housing,” Blanca said. “But more importantly, I think that we have a community that is very aware of the challenges that we can have and is very proactive at coming up with solutions with government support to address these challenges.”

“When those projects deliver, we will see that we’ll be in a much better place to check the box as a place where, yes, we have billionaires, and we have great global companies moving here; and yes, you can also bring your employees and your executives here because there is a solution to accommodate all of them at various price points,” she continued.

As traditional zones like Brickell face massive premium constraints, corporate wealth is decentralizing to the north and south. With multi-million square foot Class A projects delivering across the tri-county Gold Coast corridor, the two insiders say Florida is on a path toward global market dominance.

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“With that influx in capital, states can do more, the county and the city can do more to help their constituents. So I view it as a big positive. It’s just more money to go around to improve the quality of life for everyone who’s living here,” DaGrosa said.

“It’s a natural evolution of what we have seen, even before COVID, where the Sun Belt in general is just experiencing a migration that is phenomenal,” Blanca added. “And there’s opportunity for all cities in the Sun Belt, major cities across the Sun Belt, and for cities around the country to continue to thrive irrespective of what is happening here.”

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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is keeping the door open to a potential run for New York City mayor as he ramps up criticism of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing the candidate’s economic message and political alliances are cause for concern.

He joined FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on “Varney & Co.” to discuss New York City politics, the state of the Democratic Party and why he believes voters should pay close attention to the views of candidates seeking public office. 

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After Varney asked if he would challenge Mamdani in a run for NYC Mayor, Portnoy responded, “It depends what day you wake me up.”

“You show me a clip like that, Stuart, my blood starts to boil.” Portnoy said responding to a clip of Mamdani defending his economic agenda, arguing that raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and embracing socialist principles would help address the city’s financial challenges. 

Portnoy went on to criticize Mamdani’s comments about balancing the city’ finances. 

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“This guys’ unbelievable. You didn’t balance anything. You just took money, you robbed Peter to pay Paul. Like what are we doing here?” Portnoy said.

Portnoy also left the door open to a potential political run in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. When asked whether he would consider running against Mamdani, Portnoy said, “maybe I’m the guy to do it.”

In addition, he pointed to several progressive political figures and argued voters should take candidates at their word when evaluating past statements and policy positions before Election Day.

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“These are anti-American, they hate America,” Portnoy said. “I trust what people say a lot before they’re elected. When they get elected, a lot of these people are deleting their tweets… It’s garbage, and it’s scary.”

Although Portnoy acknowledged he has floated the idea of entering politics himself, he said he understands the personal costs that come with seeking office.

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