Daily Hints
Stuck on today's puzzle? Hints first, ordered from vague to specific, with the answer behind a separate click if you want it.
Wordle Hints
Six guesses, five letters, one word a day.
Connections Hints
Sixteen words, four hidden groups, four mistakes allowed.
Strands Hints
A themed word search with one spanning answer.
Spelling Bee Hints
Seven letters, one mandatory centre, as many words as you can find.
Mini Crossword Hints
A five-by-five crossword most people finish in under two minutes.
Contexto Hints
Guess the word by semantic closeness, not spelling.
Or work it out yourself
These narrow the field using only what you already know.
Hints, not spoilers
Every hint on these pages sits behind its own click, and they are ordered from the vaguest nudge to the strongest. Open one, look at your puzzle again, and stop as soon as you can see the way in. A page that leads with the answer is not a hints page.
Where an answer is published at all, it is behind a second disclosure at the very bottom, so you cannot stumble into it while reading a hint.
Why some days are blank
These write-ups are done by hand. Nothing here reads another publisher's puzzle on a timer and reposts what it finds — those solutions are their editorial work, and republishing them on a schedule is both a copyright problem and the reason sites that do it disappear from search results.
The cost is that some days have no page. When that happens you get a straight statement that nobody has written it up, plus a link to the puzzle, rather than filler.
The tools usually beat the hints
For anything letter-based, a solver is the better move. It uses only what you already know — the tiles you have seen, the squares you have filled — and narrows the field without telling you anything you had not earned. The Wordle solver and the crossword solver are the two that cover most of these puzzles.
Meaning-based puzzles are the exception. Nothing here helps with a puzzle like Contexto, where the answer is found by semantic distance rather than spelling, and a hint from a person who has solved it is genuinely the only assistance available.
Whose puzzles these are
Every game listed here belongs to somebody else. Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee and the Mini Crossword are made by The New York Times; Contexto is made by its own team. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them, and every page links to the real puzzle. If you want games that are actually ours, they are in the games section.