TechRadar Publishes Sept. 23 Answers for Quordle, NYT Strands and Connections

The three puzzles follow the same daily-release pattern: a new puzzle appears at midnight in each player's time zone, so some users are playing the current day's game while others are still on the previous day's. Quordle, one of the early alternatives to Wordle, has now passed 1,500 games and presents four five-letter answers at once. Strands is an NYT word game that followed Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections. Connections asks players to group answers into categories. TechRadar's columns include hints, clue words and, lower down, the answers.

For Quordle #1703, TechRadar's hints said the puzzle contained five different standard vowels, that two answers included a repeated letter, that one of Q, Z, X or J appeared, and that no two answers began with the same letter. The starting letters were S, B, J and G. The four answers were SHEET, BLAND, JOIST and GUAVA. The separate Quordle Daily Sequence for game #1703 had DRIFT, TRIAL, MOSSY and PAUSE. The column's author wrote that seeing a J caused a moment of confusion and led to a guess beginning with Q before GUAVA, described as a common Quordle word, came back to memory.

For NYT Strands #934, the theme was 'Practically paleolithic.' The hint words were THONG, SOLD, PRIMAL, SWORN, CRATE and CHART. TechRadar said the spangram had 12 letters and touched the left side in the first row and the right side in the fifth row. The answers were BYGONE, ARCHAIC, ANCIENT, PRIMEVAL and TIMEWORN, with THATSOLDNEWS as the spangram. TechRadar rated the puzzle Hard and recorded a score of one hint. The column's author wrote that the theme was initially a mystery and only became clear after a hint for BYGONE, after which the answers pointed to things that are old, tired or out of date. The author also noted that apostrophes cannot be included in word search games but disliked seeing THATS without one.

For NYT Connections #1200, the yellow group was 'Things you grab before leaving the house': KEYS, PHONE, SUNGLASSES and WALLET. The green group was 'Website hurdles': AGE VERIFICATION, CAPTCHA, COOKIE CONSENT and PAYWALL. The blue group was 'Things that come in cans': CONDENSED MILK, PAINT, SHAVING CREAM and SPAM. The purple group was 'Ending in synonyms for term': BITCOIN, RECORD LABEL, RUB-A-DUB and SURINAME. TechRadar rated the puzzle Hard and recorded a Perfect score. The column's author wrote that the yellow group came last, that SUNGLASSES was the item that caused hesitation, and that luck helped produce a mistake-free run even though the connections never felt completely certain. The author had initially thought the groups might involve security, mixed products or circles.

NYT Connections is playable for free through the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. Strands is also available through the NYT Games site, and TechRadar publishes daily hints and answers for both games alongside its Quordle coverage. The Sept. 23 columns also linked back to the previous day's puzzles: Strands #933, whose answers included SWITCH, CHANGEOVER, TRANSITION and PROGRESSION with the spangram FALLEQUINOX, and Connections #1199, whose groups covered demonstratives, embellishment, survey options and beverages with acute accents removed.