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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you watched 2000s basketball. As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over.

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words.

We're not onto day three of the new lunar cycle, which means the Moon is starting to properly come into view. Over the next few nights it'll become even more visible, and moon gazing will return. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Friday, July 17, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon phase is in Waxing Crescent phase, with just 11% of its surface visible.

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you love game night. Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer.

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're a law-abiding citizen. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Where did Wordle come from?

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a mechanic. Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

Roblox has a whopping 132 million daily active users. But, while Roblox is massively popular among gamers, it's also quite popular among game creators as well. There are millions of user-generated games or experiences on Roblox. However, it seems like those millions of games and experiences aren't enough. Roblox has just announced Build, a brand new set of AI tools focused on user game or experience creation.

It appears that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 will look very similar to its predecessor. So, if these leaks prove accurate, don't expect any radical changes to the Galaxy Z Flip 7. We expect Samsung's new foldables to debut on July 22 at a Galaxy Unpacked event in London. Mashable will be attending that event live, so check back to hear about all the announcements.

Earlier this week, Apple launched the first public beta of iOS 27. With it comes the new, smarter Siri, which is now both a standalone app, and a set of features embedded into various apps across the operating system. The new Siri truly is smarter, but the name confusion (Siri is now called Siri AI) as well as the fact that some features are baked into other Apple apps can make things overwhelming for users. Let's check out which new Siri AI features are truly worth trying out.