TechRadar Publishes Answers for Quordle #1699, Strands #930 and Connections #1196

For Quordle #1699, TechRadar listed the four answers as SCOPE, HEIST, PULSE and CHAMP. Its hints said the puzzle contained five different standard vowels, with A, E, I, O and U counted as vowels and Y excluded. No answer contained a repeated letter, and the letters Q, Z, X and J did not appear. None of the four answers began with the same letter; the starting letters were S, H, P and C. TechRadar’s solver said they played tactically by waiting until the last moment and ruling out another word beginning with P before guessing CHAMP, adding that they were pleased with their restraint. The Daily Sequence answers for game #1699 were ELEGY, OPIUM, FUGUE and SUAVE.

For NYT Strands #930, the theme was “Shiver me timbers!” TechRadar’s answers were ARRR, HEARTIES, AVAST, MATEY, SAVVY and YOHOHO. The spangram was TALKLIKEAPIRATE. TechRadar said the spangram had 15 letters and touched the left side on the eighth row and the right side on the third row. The clue words used to unlock in-game hints were HATE, PEAK, LIKE, KEEPER, STARE and MEAT. TechRadar rated the puzzle Easy and reported a perfect score. Its solver said the three Rs in a row caught their eye immediately and that getting ARRR correct was a delight. The date, September 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which TechRadar said it did not know before playing the puzzle and which left the writer calling people MATEY.

For NYT Connections #1196, TechRadar reported that the four groups were WIDEN ONE’S SCOPE, FEATURES OF A KID’S DRAWING, ASSOCIATED WITH SWINGING LONDON IN THE 1960S and STARTING WITH ABBREVIATED MATH FUNCTIONS. The yellow group, WIDEN ONE’S SCOPE, contained BRANCH OUT, DIVERSIFY, EXPAND and GROW. The green group, FEATURES OF A KID’S DRAWING, contained HOUSE, STICK FIGURE, SUN and TREE. The blue group, ASSOCIATED WITH SWINGING LONDON IN THE 1960S, contained CARNABY STREET, MINISKIRT, MOD and TWIGGY. The purple group, STARTING WITH ABBREVIATED MATH FUNCTIONS, contained COS LETTUCE, LOG CABIN, SIN CITY and TAN LINE. TechRadar rated the puzzle Hard and reported one mistake, saying the solver fell for a trap linking STICK FIGURE, BRANCH OUT, LOG CABIN and TWIGGY before recovering. The purple group went “way above” the solver’s head, according to the report.

TechRadar also provided background on the games. It described Quordle as one of the original Wordle alternatives and said it remains active after more than 1,500 games. Strands is part of the New York Times games lineup that followed Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections, and it can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. Connections asks players to group 16 words into four categories of increasing difficulty, with green considered easy, yellow a little harder, blue often tough and purple usually very difficult. Players can make up to three mistakes, and TechRadar said the final group can sometimes be solved by elimination. Quordle, Strands and Connections all reset daily, and TechRadar’s report included spoiler warnings before the answers.

Editor's Summary

TechRadar published solutions for Quordle #1699, NYT Strands #930 and NYT Connections #1196 on September 19, 2026. The Quordle answers were SCOPE, HEIST, PULSE and CHAMP; Strands used a pirate theme with TALKLIKEAPIRATE as its spangram; and Connections grouped terms related to broadening scope, children’s drawings, 1960s Swinging London and math abbreviations. The report also confirmed daily reset times and rules for the three games.