Connections is one of the best puzzle games 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.

Some days are trickier than others — just like other NYT Games favorites The Mini and Strands. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s puzzle, check out our Connections tips and tricks guide for some good strategies or check out the hints for today’s Connections puzzle below. And if you still can’t get it, we’ll tell you today’s answers at the very end.

How to play Connections

Connections is a daily game about finding common threads between words. Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. Play now. https://t.co/YITfSnqODb pic.twitter.com/CqObVOqeUs

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 3, 2024

You can play Connections on the New York Times website or with the NYT Games app on iOS or Android.

In Connections, you’ll be shown a grid containing 16 words — your objective is to organize these words into four sets of four by identifying the connections that link them. These sets could encompass concepts like titles of video game franchises, book series sequels, shades of red, names of chain restaurants, etc.

There are generally words that seem like they could fit multiple themes, but there’s only one 100% correct answer. You’re able to shuffle the grid of words and rearrange them to help better see the potential connections.

Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is the easiest to figure out, followed by the green, blue, and purple groups.

Pick four words and hit Submit. If you’re correct, the four words will be removed from the grid and the theme connecting them will be revealed. Guess incorrectly and it’ll count as a mistake. You only have four mistakes available until the game ends.

Hints for today’s Connections

We can help you solve today’s Connection by telling you the four themes. If you need more assistance, we’ll also give you one word from each group below.

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Today’s themes

• FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES
• PUBLIC STANDING
• INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD
• ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS

One-answer reveals

• FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES – HASH
• PUBLIC STANDING – CHARACTER
• INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD – ARTIST
• ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS – DIAL

Today’s Connections answers

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Wyna Liu, who has been editing puzzles at The New York Times since 2020, edits Connections daily.

“A few months ago, a new assignment crossed my desk: Create the game boards for Connections, a category matching game that had recently been greenlighted and was in search of an editor,” wrote Liu in an article explaining her process in June 2024. Most of my puzzle experience has been working with crosswords, and I was excited at the chance to try something different. I’ve enjoyed learning how puzzle editing plays out once a game is greenlighted, and seeing how our team fits into a larger ecosystem.”

On the one-year anniversary of Connections launching earlier this year, Liu posted this TikTok about her favorite puzzles so far:

@thegamesteam ? happy one year anniversary to connections, our newest official NYT game ? #nytgames #nytconnections #nyt ♬ The Kite Live by Luisa Marion – luisa_marion_music

Samsung hasn’t rolled out any updates for its older Galaxy Watch models in months. The company may not have forgotten about releasing security patches for its smartwatches. However, the tech giant will have to release updates for older Wear OS-powered Galaxy Watches soon.

Samsung is yet to release any new updates for its older Galaxy Watches

Samsung has been readying One UI 7.0. This update is based on Android 15. The company has fallen behind on the development and indicated that One UI 7.0 will roll out early next year.

Similar to the One UI development, Samsung appears to have fallen behind in updating its older Galaxy Watch smartwatches. The South Korean tech giant has been working on the next major Wear OS update for quite some time. However, there has been no update for the wearable devices in the past several months.

The Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra smartwatches received the Wear OS 5 with One UI 6 Watch update earlier this year. However, no other models have received this update, despite it being in beta.

Specifically speaking, Samsung hasn’t updated any of its older Galaxy Watch devices since it moved on to Wear OS 5 and One UI 6 Watch. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 models still sport the March 2024 security patch. In other words, these smartwatches haven’t received updates for well over six months.

When will older Galaxy Watch models get Wear OS 5?

Technically, the beta testing phase for the Wear OS 5 with One UI 6 Watch update was to be over last month. However, with October gone, the majority of Galaxy Watch users must be wondering why their smartwatches are still running Wear OS 4. Only the Galaxy Watch 6 series has started receiving the One UI 6.0 update, but only beta testers based in the US have access to the same.

While the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, Watch Ultra, and Watch FE are rocking the latest Wear OS 5 software, they still have the June 2024 security patch. Needless to say, Samsung hasn’t confirmed when the Wear OS 5 with One UI 6 Watch update will roll out to the older Galaxy Watch devices.

Samsung seems to be struggling with its software division, particularly the one that handles updates. The company should have at least demoed the One UI 7.0. However, the company only teased the latest iteration of the custom Android skin recently. Samsung may release the latest Wear OS 5 and the One UI 7.0 simultaneously early next year.

A new AI feature is coming to Microsoft’s Notepad called Rewrite. reports that Microsoft is rolling out a preview of Rewrite to Windows Insiders that will allow AI to rewrite sentences, change the tone and alter the length of text in Notepad.

Windows Insiders can access Rewrite by highlighting text in a Notepad window and right-clicking it in the menu or pushing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I. A dialogue box will open showing the AI’s suggested rewrites of the highlighted text and the adjustable features menus including “Longer,” “Tone” and “Format” above the “Replace” button. If you prefer to write with just your fingers and brain, you can turn off the AI feature in the app settings menu, according to .

Even Microsoft’s Paint app is getting its own AI features called Generative Fill and Generative Erase. The new “fill” feature can edit and add visual features to your photos and drawings by drawing a selection box and using the text box to describe the image you wish to add to the selected area. The “erase” feature for Paint can remove images in photos or drawings by selecting them with the “generative erase brush” while using the eraser tool, according to the Windows blog.

So it took more than four decades just to get but it only took a couple of months to get an AI that can paint and rewrite for us?

This way, Qualcomm’s new chips can run more kinds of apps that don’t have native ARM64 versions and, until now, weren’t usable with emulation. It could even enable games that use AVX2, like Starfield and Helldivers 2, to work on Windows on Arm.

With this update, Microsoft’s emulator will open up support for 64-bit x86 software to use processor extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C. However, it says 32-bit software still won’t be able to detect the new emulator support, so some programs still might have trouble.

While many apps, including Photoshop, Hulu, and Chrome, already have native ARM64 versions for Windows, others require emulation, and some still won’t work at all. According to Microsoft, the new emulator is already enabled “in limited use” on retail PCs, allowing Premiere Pro 25 to run on Arm — after it was initially blocked — while Adobe works on a native version.

Correction, November 6th: A previous version of the article incorrectly stated Blender needed to be emulated. It now has an ARM64 version.

Nikon has updated its four-year-old Z50 with the Z50 II. The mini-DSLR-style successor comes with the same 20.9MP APS-C sensor, but packs Nikon’s latest Expeed 7 processor, which delivers a raft of performance-based improvements.

Nikon says the Z50 II has the same subject detection autofocus options as its professional Z8 and Z9 mirrorless cameras, with nine subject types to choose from, 3D tracking, custom-size autofocus areas, plus a smarter AF-A option (autofocus auto). It also debuts a Product Review mode, which easily switches focus between people and objects, much like Sony‘s Product Showcase autofocus mode.

The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. 
In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to match. Players are given six numbers and have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide them to get as close to the target as they can. Not every number needs to be used, though, so this game should put your math skills to the test as you combine numbers and try to make the right equations to get as close to the target number as possible.

Players will get a five-star rating if they match the target number exactly, a three-star rating if they get within 10 of the target, and a one-star rating if they can get within 25 of the target number. Currently, players are also able to access five different puzzles with increasingly larger numbers as well.  I solved today’s puzzle and found it to be an enjoyable number-based game that should appeal to inquisitive minds that like puzzle games such as Threes or other The New York Times titles like Wordle and Spelling Bee.
In an article unveiling Digits and detailing The New York Time Games team’s process to game development, The Times says the team will use this free beta to fix bugs and assess if it’s worth moving into a more active development phase “where the game is coded and the designs are finalized.” So play Digits while you can, as The New York Times may move on from the project if it doesn’t get the response it is hoping for. 
Digits’ beta is available to play for free now on The New York Times Games’ website