TechRadar posts Monday puzzle answers for Quordle, Strands and Connections

For Quordle #1708, TechRadar reported that the four answers are BRUNT, TORSO, STONE and HEATH. The column said the puzzle contains four different standard vowels, that two answers include a repeated letter, and that Q, Z, X and J do not appear. No two answers start with the same letter. The starting letters are B, T, S and H. TechRadar also listed the Quordle Daily Sequence #1708 answers as TEDDY, BLUFF, CHOCK and OTHER. The article described TORSO as the day's most difficult-to-get word and said words beginning in T and ending in O often look exotic, citing tango as an example, while Tokyo and Tromso share letters with TORSO.

For NYT Strands #939, the theme was "A form of art," and the answers were WOOD, CLAY, GLASS, SOAPSTONE, BRONZE and MARBLE. The spangram was SCULPTURE. TechRadar said the spangram has nine letters and touches the bottom of the third column and the top of the fifth column. Clue words that unlock in-game hints were TALES, SPOT, TONE, SUGAR, BRAG and POSTAL. The author rated the puzzle Easy and reported a Perfect score, writing that it was a relatively easy search and a nice start to the week. The article said the author initially had soap and stone as separate non-game words before recognizing SOAPSTONE. It also noted a crossover with a Sculpture Media category in the previous day's Connections puzzle, where plaster was missing from the group of four.

For NYT Connections #1205, TechRadar reported the groups as THINGS WITH STALKS, OYSTER CONDIMENTS, DODGE MODELS and THREE LETTERS PLUS REPEATED TRIGRAMS. The yellow group contained BAMBOO, CELERY, CORN and WHEAT. The green group contained HORSERADISH, LEMON, MIGNONETTE and TABASCO. The blue group contained CHALLENGER, CHARGER, DURANGO and VIPER. The purple group contained ARKANSANS, CHIHUAHUA, POSSESSES and SPRINGING. The author rated the puzzle Hard and finished with one mistake. In the article, the author wrote that he had never had a Bloody Mary but initially thought CELERY, TABASCO, HORSERADISH and LEMON were all things added to vodka and tomato juice, then corrected the error after considering what CELERY might share with other tiles. The next two groups were assembled on hunches: the author did not know the Dodge models but thought CHALLENGER, CHARGER, DURANGO and VIPER sounded like macho car names, and gambled that MIGNONETTE was a foodstuff, later learning it is a type of vinegar, before placing it with the oyster condiments.

The TechRadar columns also provide puzzle guidance and note that each game appears at midnight daily for the player's time zone, so some players are always playing "today's game" while others are playing "yesterday's." The Quordle article said the game remains a genuine challenge more than 1,500 games after it emerged as one of the original Wordle alternatives. The Strands article said the game is now a fully fledged member of the NYT Games stable, following Wordle and Connections, and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. The Connections article said the game is playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile and challenges players to find groups of four items that share something in common, with green rated easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult. It also noted that players can make up to four mistakes and do not technically need to solve the final group because it can be answered by elimination.