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Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, 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.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections Sports Edition?

The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

Here's a hint for today's Connections Sports Edition categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Pool fun

• Green: Baseball group

• Blue: School nicknames

• Purple: Athletics in brief

Featured Video For You Connections: How to play and how to win Here are today's Connections Sports Edition categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Aquatic sports

• Green: AL Central teams

• Blue: Ivy League team nicknames

• Purple: Shortened names for sports

Looking for Wordle today? Here's the answer to today's Wordle.

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections Sports Edition #244 is...

What is the answer to Connections Sports Edition today

• Aquatic sports - DIVING, SURFING, SWIMMING, WATER POLO

• AL Central teams - GUARDIANS, ROYALS, TWINS, WHITE SOX

• Ivy League team nicknames - BIG RED, CRIMSON, QUAKERS, TIGERS

• Shortened names for sports - FOOTY, HOOPS, LAX, XC

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.

If you're looking for more puzzles, Mashable's got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.

While The Last of Us Season 2 has often plunged us into festering pits of ungodly despair, there's also been some light.

That includes the season finale, episode 7, in which Ellie (Bella Ramsey) picks up a little reading material for mother-to-be Dina (Isabela Merced) while on a dangerous rendezvous mission.

It's a book, and not just any book but Jon Stone's 1971 Little Golden Book classic The Monster at the End of This Book, illustrated by Michael Smollin.

Remember this book!? Credit: Studio Fun Intl / Amazon / Mashable composite

Reader, when Ellie picked up this title, of all the somehow-surviving children's books in the Seattle bookstore where Jesse (Young Mazino) is meant to meet up with Tommy (Gabriel Luna), I squawked. I'm probably not alone in having grown up reading Stone's book to pieces as a kid. A Sesame Street story starring the eternally chaotic Grover, the book involves the blue furry monster doing everything possible to stop you reading on: brick walls, elaborate rope knots, generally screaming at you. Don't you know? There's a monster at the end!

SEE ALSO: 'The Last of Us' Season 2: What are the differences between the game and the HBO show?

Of course, by the time you do get to the end of the story, Grover, a monster, realises, "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me," and chastises you for being so afraid, like the adorable little gaslighter he is.

The Monster at the End of This Book is the perfect book for Ellie to pick up for two reasons: 1) It's a book about overcoming your fears, which Dina's kid will absolutely need in this post-apocalyptic reality, and 2) it's a story of perspective, of not knowing that you, in fact, may be the monster. Considering Ellie is single-handedly blasting her way through the Washington Liberation Front buds to get to the person who killed her father, there's a fair amount of self-assessment needed around here.

Who, exactly, will be the monster at the end of this story?

The Last of Us Season 2 is now streaming on HBO and HBO Max Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.

The Last of Us Season 2 is over, and the series finale left us with more questions than answers.

But along with wondering whether or not Ellie (Bella Ramsey) will survive, or what Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her crew were planning before they got interrupted, there's also a much smaller mystery: Given that The Last of Us is a show filled with Easter eggs, what's the deal with the book Abby is reading in the flashback at the very end?

SEE ALSO: 'The Last of Us' Season 2, episode 6: The moth symbol, explained What book is Abby reading at the end of the finale?

After the dramatic cliffhanger in the present day we rewind three days earlier to "Seattle: Day One", where Abby is lying on a sofa in the Washington Liberation Front (WLF) base with an open book on her chest.

The title of this book is Thieves of the City by Ben Davidoff. A quick Google shows that it isn't a real book, but there is a very similar title out there: City of Thieves by David Benioff (yep, one of the Game of Thrones showrunners), a coming-of-age historical fiction book published in 2008.

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Fortunately, the answer to this one has already been provided by the game's creator, Neil Druckmann, when he was asked about his inspiration for The Last of Us game back in 2013.

"There’s a book called City of Thieves, which is historical fiction," Druckmann told VentureBeat. "It explores the journey of these two survivors in Leningrad during World War II, while the city was under siege. They’re going to look for food and they run into cannibals and all these other horrible people, but there’s still humor in it. These two characters who hate each other form a bond. That was handled very well."

The book was even included in the second game, The Last of Us Part II, with Abby seen reading it in a very similar scene to the one shown in the Season 2 finale. The only difference? They tweaked the title and the author name ever so slightly.

New episodes of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere on HBO and HBO Max Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.

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Well, we endured and survived another brutal season of The Last of Us, with Season 2 wrapping up with the finale on Sunday.

But surely this isn't the end! Not with a cinematic cliffhanger like that.

While you're crawling back into reality after the throngs of violence that took place in Season 2, episode 7, let's look forward to when Season 3 will land on HBO Max.

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Big yes. On April 9, The Last of Us was renewed for a third season, ahead of its Season 2 debut.

"We approached Season 2 with the goal of creating something we could be proud of," creator, executive producer, writer, and director Craig Mazin said with the April announcement. "The end results have exceeded even our most ambitious goals, thanks to our continued collaboration with HBO and the impeccable work of our unparalleled cast and crew. We look forward to continuing the story of The Last of Us with Season 3!"

Considering we waited two years between the end of Season 1 on March 12, 2023 and the premiere of Season 2 on April 13, 2025, we might be looking at another lengthy wait between seasons.

What will Season 3 of The Last of Us be about? Season 3 will likely focus on Abby's (Kaitlyn Dever) perspective. Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Given the fact that The Last of Us Season 2 finale jumps back in time to Seattle Day 3 from Abby's (Kaitlyn Dever) perspective, we can expect that Season 3 will cover the same three-day period of Seattle shenanigans we've just seen from Ellie's (Bella Ramsey) point of view, leading up to the confrontation in the cinema. This mirrors Naughty Dog's time jump in The Last of Us Part II game.

In a perfect world, that could mean that scenes from Season 3 have already been shot, or it could be a faster production process, considering many of the Seattle street sets are already built. But there's nothing guaranteed, and Mazin and co-creator Neil Druckmann have plenty of ground to cover.

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No details about the cast of The Last of Us Season 3 have been announced, but considering that cliffhanger, we're thinking it's a fair bet to say Bella Ramsey, Kaitlyn Dever, Gabriel Luna, Young Mazino, and Isabela Merced will return.

Will Pedro Pascal return for Season 3 of The Last of Us? More Pedro Pascal? Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

With Joel Miller's (Pedro Pascal) brutal death in the second episode of Season 2, fans may have thought series and internet favourite Pascal would be absent from the show from then on. However, episode 6 proved to be one the most heartbreaking episodes of the season — a flashback episode starring Pascal in one of his best performances in The Last of Us.

Considering the games are plentiful with flashback material, there's a chance Pascal could make a cameo in Season 3 in another such instance, but no cast details have been announced for the upcoming season. Keep 'em crossed.

In the meantime, if you're looking for deep dives into The Last of Us Season 2, Mashable's got you covered.

Spoilers ahead for The Last of Us Season 2 finale.

The finale of The Last of Us Season 2 sees more than a few deaths, but some deviate from the Naughty Dog games.

Soaked to the bone and spiralling into her quest for revenge, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) catches up to more members of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF), namely two who were present for Joel's (Pedro Pascal) brutal murder in episode 2.

SEE ALSO: 'The Last of Us' Season 2: What are the differences between the game and the HBO show?

But there's a difference in one of these deaths between Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann's adaption and The Last of Us Part II. Here's how it all compares.

How does Mel die in The Last of Us Season 2 finale? Mel (Ariela Barer) is one of Abby's (Kaitlyn Dever) crew. Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Having attacked and left Nora (Tati Gabrielle) for dead in the spore-filled basement of Seattle's Lakehill Hospital in episode 5, Ellie has started down a dark, violent path of vengeance. Toward the end of Season 2, episode 7 of The Last of Us, she finally makes it to the Seattle Aquarium, where she believes Joel's killer Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) is holed up. Instead, she finds two of her closest companions: Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord) discussing imminent plans. Remember, they're both former Fireflies; Mel is the doctor who put Dina (Isabela Merced) to sleep during Joel's murder, while Owen appears to be Abby's partner, and the one who told her to "end it."

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During a tense confrontation with the two, Ellie tries to use Joel's map technique to make Owen and Mel give up Abby's whereabouts. Being closer to Abby, Owen decides to try a quick draw instead of ratting her out, but Ellie's too quick with Joel's powerful pistol and shoots him through the neck. Tragically, the gun's force also means Mel is shot too — and she's pregnant.

Tragically attempting to save her unborn child with her medical skills in her dying moments, Mel tries to guide Ellie through the necessary actions, but it's too late.

How does Mel die in The Last of Us game?

In The Last of Us Part II, the events leading up to Mel and Owen's deaths are the same. Owen is shot when he attempts to disarm Ellie, but the change is that Mel attacks Ellie with a knife in response. It's kill or be killed, and Mel comes very close to overpowering Ellie — you have to smash the square button to stop her ending you. However, the tables are then turned and Ellie stabs Mel in the neck, and she dies instantly. Then, in Owen's final breath, he tells Ellie that Mel is pregnant. While this news is horrifying to Ellie, you, as a player, have actually known this since early in the game — Owen tells Abby this when they first find Jackson, before she murders Joel.

In the show, it appears Ellie does not mean to kill Mel — in the scene, Mel is visibly pregnant. The game doesn't include a scene of Mel trying to save her unborn child, nor Ellie trying to help her. However, both scenes are cold, hard reminders of The Last of Us' world of brutal tête-à-tête — a world Dina's child will soon be born into — and Ellie's spiral into all-consuming hate.

Abby's own act of revenge has seen her friends falling one by one — Nora, Owen, Mel — all at Ellie's hands. It's an endless cycle of violence, and one that likely won't end in this leaking, crumbling tomb of an aquarium.

The Last of Us Season 2, episode 7 will premiere on HBO and HBO Max Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.

The Last of Us loves a good callback, and in its Season 2 finale, it draws a heartbreaking connection from Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to Joel (Pedro Pascal).

The callback comes when Ellie attempts to hunt Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) to her hideout in the Seattle Aquarium. Instead of finding her target, she finds Abby's friends Owen (Spencer Lord) and Mel (Ariela Barer). In an attempt to learn where Abby is, she gestures to a nearby map of Seattle.

SEE ALSO: 'The Last of Us' Season 2 finale is a frustrating letdown. Here's why.

"You, bring me that map," she tells Mel. "You're gonna point to where Abby is."

Ellie addresses Owen next: "Then you're gonna do it, and it better fucking match."

If that tactic sounds familiar, it's because Joel used it not once but twice back in Season 1. In episode 6, he first asked an elderly couple (Elaine Miles and Graham Greene) to point out their current location on a map. Later, in episode 8, he pulled the same trick on David's (Scott Shepherd) cronies in order to learn where David had taken Ellie.

What does the return of Joel's map tactic tell us about Ellie? Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us." Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

That Ellie tries Joel's map tactic on Owen and Mel proves just how much she's learned from Joel in their time together — and how her revenge quest has seen her slowly becoming Joel, especially when it comes to violence. In the season 2 finale, Ellie also discusses how easy it felt to harm Nora (Tati Gabrielle) in order to learn what she wanted. Joel himself is no stranger to torture: His use of the map strategy in Season 1, episode 8 was accompanied by him ruthlessly stabbing one of David's men in the leg.

Ramsey discussed Ellie's growing similarity to Joel in an interview with Mashable, saying, "Ellie really is becoming Joel in a certain way, and would hate that if you said it to her, because she thinks that she's the opposite to him. In fact, they're kind of two sides of the same coin."

To capture that sense of sameness, Ramsey channeled Pascal in these darker scenes.

"I did sort of try and take, not really from rewatching [Season 1], just from remembering how it was to be in scenes with [Pascal], where he was taking this sort of hard-ass, protective stance," Ramsey said. "I really tried to emulate that a little bit with Ellie, and thinking about how much she looks up to Joel, and how she has learned everything that she knows, basically, from him."

The Last of Us Season 2 is now streaming on HBO Max.

There's no sense beating around the bush: The Last of Us' Season 2 finale is a major disappointment.

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After seven episodes of game-changing deaths, heartbreaking flashbacks, and the occasional half-hearted gesture to the conflict between the Washington Liberation Front and Seraphites, Season 2 wraps up with a baffling cliffhanger that's meant to stoke excitement for Season 3. But in reality, it's a misunderstanding of how best to translate The Last of Us Part II to TV.

The Last of Us Season 2's Abby cliffhanger won't work with years between seasons. Kaitlyn Dever in "The Last of Us." Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Season 2 ends with Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) crashing the theater where Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Dina (Isabela Merced) have been hiding out since arriving in Seattle. There, she kills Jesse (Young Mazino) and wounds Tommy (Gabriel Luna), then turns her gun on Ellie. As she fires, The Last of Us cuts to black and rewinds the clock. When next we see Abby, it's days earlier. More specifically, it's "Seattle Day One," when Ellie and Dina arrive in the city. That means Season 3 will cover those three days from Abby's point of view, showing us what she's been up to since she disappeared from the show after murdering Joel (Pedro Pascal) all the way back in episode 2.

That sequence of events, including the perspective shift, plays out pretty similarly between the TV show and the video game. (Although Abby's sections opens with a flashback to her time with her father in the Fireflies, which the show has already explored in Season 2's first two episodes.) There's one key difference between mediums, though. In the game, the switch happens right away, immediately forcing you into Abby's shoes and encouraging you to empathize with her as you play along. In the show, the switch is teased as something to look forward to. But given how long TV takes to make now — we waited over two years between Seasons 1 and 2 of The Last of Us — it's likely we won't be seeing Abby's storyline for another two years.

SEE ALSO: 'The Last of Us' Season 2, episode 6: Did you notice the watch?

That long time between seasons means The Last of Us is asking a lot of its audience, including the fact that we're meant to wait all this time to pick up with a character whose biggest role in the story so far has been killing one of the show's beloved leads. The perspective change in the game challenges players' sense of allegiance, and no doubt that's what the show aims to accomplish as well. But part of the effectiveness of that turnaround comes down to how it happens instantly. Players keep going because they immediately get that choice (and because they want to find out what happens to Ellie in the theater). With a likely two-year wait between seasons, who's to say audience members won't tap out entirely? The show is stifling its own momentum, even as it hopes to build it.

The Last of Us Season 2 should have also covered Abby's storyline. Kaitlyn Dever in "The Last of Us." Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Well before Season 2 aired, showrunner Craig Mazin announced that it would only cover half of the events of The Last of Us Part II. That announcement basically told people who are familiar with the game exactly where the season would end. However, just because the cliffhanger isn't a surprise doesn't mean it works in the context of the show — especially following some of the adaptation choices The Last of Us Season 2 has made throughout.

Season 2 kicked off by revealing one of the game's biggest questions right off the bat: Who is Abby, and why did she kill Joel? In the game, we learn her reasoning after the change in point of view, and the revelation is an immediate step in our journey to empathize with her. In the show, the early knowledge humanizes Abby right off the bat, but the series does nothing else to build on that. After spending so much time with Abby in episode 1 and especially 2, her absence in the rest of the season feels less like an intriguing mystery and more like the show stalling for time until we get to Season 3.

SEE ALSO: Did 'The Last of Us' Season 2, episode 6 break your heart? Us too.

Adding to that feeling are Season 2's peeks inside the inner workings of the WLF, like Isaac's (Jeffrey Wright) torture of a Seraphite, or the finale's hints at the WLF invasion of the Seraphite island. These are all puzzle pieces that will surely come together in Season 3, but for now, none of these scenes connect because we don't have an emotional anchor in this world yet. As an outsider, Ellie can't be that anchor. It has to be Abby, and she's missing. Plus, if the show really wanted to keep us rooted in Ellie's perspective, why even include Isaac in this season in the first place? As great as Wright is, his scenes feel disjointed here, with no payoff beyond the show saying, "Trust us, we can land this plane."

The thing is, I do mostly trust The Last of Us to stick the landing on future seasons, but the fact that that later, hypothetical conclusion comes at the cost of current seasons is troubling. Now, the obvious fix would be to have one long season covering The Last of Us Part II. Think about how much this cliffhanger would have rocked as a mid-season finale with a wait of a few weeks between episodes, as opposed to a wait of a few years. But instead, The Last of Us falls prey to larger problems within the TV landscape, like a fear of long seasons and a tendency to push key narrative beats down the road in favor of overstretching the source material.

The Last of Us Season 2 finale is the House of the Dragon Season 2 finale all over again. Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us." Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

The last time I felt so frustrated about a season finale was House of the Dragon's Season 2 finale — yet another example of an HBO tentpole show that desperately needed more episodes in order tell a complete season-long arc.

Like The Last of Us, House of the Dragon Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger that screamed, "Cool resolutions are coming next season, we promise!" (Shout out to the Battle of the Gullet.) But why not take more time, and more episodes, to flesh these resolutions out in the seasons where they'd make the most sense, instead of sending them down the road? The simplest answer is that more seasons means more money, at the cost of the quality of the show itself.

This mentality of hoarding material for later seasons also comes with the side effect of shorter seasons. It's ludicrous that The Last of Us, one of the biggest shows on TV right now, is running a seven-episode-long season. That's barely enough time to dig into the meat of Ellie's arc in The Last of Us Part II. By the end of the season, it feels like she's only just arrived in Seattle, and yet we've gotten so little from it! In fact, it's telling that the most impactful episode following Ellie's exit from Jackson centers not on her time in Seattle, but on her past with Joel. That entire flashback episode is full of key moments that get ample time to breathe, like Ellie and Joel's museum visit, or their final discussion on Joel's porch.

By contrast, Ellie's present-day quest for vengeance has been compressed into an oddly paced, unsatisfying journey. The letdown of the Season 2 finale is the cherry on top of an underwhelming season that could have been so much more if it had just had more room to fully explore its story. If The Last of Us is going to learn from its mistakes in Season 3, it'll have to stop playing for time. But with showrunner Craig Mazin telling Collider the series will need a fourth season to complete its narrative, I'm not holding my breath.

The Last of Us Season 2 is now streaming on HBO Max.

The Last of Us Season 2 finale took a leaf from the House of the Dragon book of cliffhangers, ending on a brutal, mid-scene blackout coupled with a flashback that raises more questions than it does answers.

So what exactly happened at the end with Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey)? Who fired and who's dead? And what's with the final "Day One" subtitle? We've broken it all down below.

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After a tumultuous three-day journey across Seattle, Ellie finally tracks down Abby's crew to a seaside aquarium where she kills Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord). Here, she's reunited with Tommy (Gabriel Luna), with Jesse (Young Mazino) in tow. Back at Ellie and Dina's (Isabela Merced) makeshift cinema base, Ellie makes amends with Jesse before they're interrupted by sounds of a struggle in the lobby.

The pair rush through and Jesse is immediately shot by Abby, who's tracked them down somehow. It's the first time Ellie has seen Abby since she murdered Joel (Pedro Pascal) in the mountain lodge near Jackson, months ago. Making it clear she knows her friends are dead, Abby stands over an injured Tommy with her gun drawn, threatening to "kill him too" unless Ellie drops her weapon and comes out of hiding.

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"I let you live," Abby says after she's realised who Ellie is. "I let you live. And you wasted it."

Abby raises her gun and the camera cuts to Ellie saying, "No, no, no!" before we hear a gunshot at the exact moment the screen cuts to black.

The episode doesn't end there, though. In the final few minutes we travel back three days earlier to "Seattle: Day One", following Abby as she's summoned by Washington Liberation Front (WLF) member and former Firefly Manny (Danny Ramirez) to go and see WLF leader Isaac (Jeffrey Wright). Abby walks down a corridor and emerges on a balcony overlooking the inside of a bustling stadium settlement that is clearly the WLF base in Seattle.

Did Abby shoot Ellie? Bella Ramsey as Ellie. Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

This is the big question. We don't have much evidence to go on, either, as the gunshot happens exactly as the scene ends. But if we zoom out and use some guesswork, it seems very unlikely that Ellie is going to die at this point. The show has already lost one huge character in Season 2 — it's hardly likely to kill off its other lead so soon after, right?

If that's the case, though, then what's with the gunshot? Well, crucially, there is one character in the group that we don't see in the final confrontation with Abby: Dina (Isabela Merced). We know she's in the cinema and will have heard the struggle and the first gunshot — so if we had to guess, we'd say the final gunshot is more likely to be her coming to Ellie's rescue and shooting at Abby. But we'll have to wait for Season 3 to know for sure.

What might be another question for Season 3 is how the hell did Abby know a) her friends (including her partner) were dead, b) who killed them, and c) exactly where the person who killed her friends was going to be at that very moment?

Is Jesse dead? Jesse (Young Mazino) tried so hard to avoid death in the finale. Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

From the look on Jesse's face immediately after he's shot, and the fact that he doesn't get back up, we can assume that Jesse is probably dead at the end of Season 2 unless he was really lucky. Knowing he's about to become a father, Jesse, the character who tried so hard not to die in the season finale, might have been killed in an instant.

What's with the Abby flashback? Kaitlyn Dever as Abby. Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

We've seen this technique before with the Joel flashback at the end of episode 5, which then led into the longer flashback in episode 6. It's The Last of Us' way of signalling a time or perspective shift, and it likely means that Season 3 will start back in Seattle Day One with Abby, showing us what she was getting up to while Ellie and Dina were first arriving in the city.

There's still a big question mark over what Abby and her crew were planning when Ellie threw a spanner in the works in the finale, so this flashback will likely answer that question.

What happened with the Washington Liberation Front and the Seraphites? Jeffrey Wright as Isaac. Credit: Liane Hentscher / HBO

In the finale, we get glimpses of the WLF's impending attack on their rivals, the Seraphites, but we don't actually see it happen. Early in the episode, we see Isaac laying out the plans in his tent, and later on the Seraphite island, where Ellie unfortunately ends up, our protagonist is saved by the sound of alarms coming from what is described as the Seraphite village. What exactly is going on here?

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The Last of Us Season 2 ended on a slightly confusing, cliffhanger-y note, with plenty of death and lots of different moving parts.

But in amongst that final gunshot and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) becoming increasingly Joel-like (Pedro Pascal), there are also some subplots that remain mysterious.

One of these concerns Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her group, and the reason they're AWOL from the rest of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF). So what exactly are they planning when Ellie arrives to throw a spanner in the works? Let's unpack what we know.

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We already know Abby and most of her crew are AWOL in episode 7 thanks to a conversation between WLF leader Isaac (Jeffrey Wright) and commanding officer Elise Park (Hettienne Park), where Isaac expresses his concern that Abby — who he is apparently lining up for future WLF leadership — has gone missing.

Ellie manages to track Abby's crew down to their seafront aquarium base thanks to the last words of Nora (Tati Gabrielle), and as she's creeping into the building she overhears a conversation between Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord).

Here's a full transcript:

Mel: "...for her, so don't make me sound like I'm being some kind of heartless bitch. I'm not. And let's be honest, this isn't about them anyways, Owen. You're talking about being behind enemy lines alone at night. This is suicide under normal circumstances, and you want to do this now? Do you even understand what's going on?"

Owen: "I understand everything, but I don't have a choice, do I? It's Abby."

Mel: "Of course you have a choice. And so do I. And I am choosing no, also because it's Abby."

Owen: "Fine, I'll do it on my own, like always. I can make it there and back in 30. If you're still here you can get on board and keep going with us. If you're not, you're not."

Mel: "Fuck you, Owen."

It's all a little bit cryptic, but at this stage it's our biggest clue. So, what are Abby and her crew planning?

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Given that Isaac doesn't know the location of Abby and her friends, it seems like there are only really two possibilities: Either they're planning to betray Isaac and the WLF, or they're planning to break out on their own for some reason.

There isn't much in Mel and Owen's exchange for us to grab onto, but the biggest clue might be Mel's "behind enemy lines" comment. It seems likely that she's referring to the Seraphites here, the cult-like faction the WLF is at war with — and if Mel still sees them as the enemy, it probably rules out the possibility that Abby and her crew have switched sides altogether.

Is it possible Abby is planning to take her friends and leave Seattle and the WLF altogether? Maybe try to go and start afresh somewhere less mired in violence? We'll have to wait until Season 3 to find out.

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If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

Strands 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. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferrined pace.

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The words are communication-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are ways to communicate without speaking.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Gestures

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• Handshake

• Curtsey

• Kowtow

• Gestures

• Salute

• Namaste

• Shrug

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Strands.

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

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.

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Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

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A small flying device.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no recurring letters.

Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter D.

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Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

DRONE.

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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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.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

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Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Cloth items

• Green: Inverse

• Blue: What women wear under their clothes

• Purple: Played in Vegas

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Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Items in a linen closet

• Green: Diametric

• Blue: Lingerie

• Purple: Card games with the first letter changed

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections #715 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Items in a linen closet: PILLOWCASE, SHEET, TOWEL, WASHCLOTH

• Diametric: COUNTER, OPPOSITE, POLAR, REVERSE

• Lingerie: GARTER, HOSE, SLIP, TEDDY

• Card games with the first letter changed: DIN, FRIDGE, GUMMY, JOKER

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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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. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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A chaotic situation.

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SCRUM

Hurdle Word 2 hint

The first version of a written piece.

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DRAFT

Hurdle Word 3 hint

A shoulder covering.

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SHAWL

Hurdle Word 4 hint

An annoying person.

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TWERP

Final Hurdle hint

Shaggy.

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HAIRY

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The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

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Here are the clues and answers to NYT's The Mini for Sunday, May 25, 2025:

AcrossEndangers

• The answer is Risks.

"Bloomin'" item at Outback Steakhouse

• The answer is Onion.

Up the ___ (plentifully)

• The answer is Wazoo.

Lived (in)

• The answer is Dwelt.

"You wanted to see me because...?"

• The answer is Yes.

DownRambunctious

• The answer is Rowdy.

Totally blown away

• The answer is Inawe.

S, M and L

• The answer is Sizes.

___-Aid Man, mascot known for smashing through walls and yelling "Oh, yeah!"

• The answer is Kool.

Pesky little twerp

• The answer is Snot.

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When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it. 

That glowing curve isn't the sign of a broken telescope, but in fact another galaxy — about 19.5 billion light-years from Earth in space. It's much farther than the elliptical galaxy, seen as the central dot in the image at the top of this story, roughly 2.7 billion light-years away. 

The strange, bent shape of the extremely remote galaxy, called HerS 020941.1+001557, is caused by a quirk of nature called "gravitational lensing," something predicted in Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity over a century ago. But the gravitational lensing here displays a special type of phenomenon, known as an Einstein ring. 

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Gravitational lensing happens when a celestial object has such a massive gravitational pull that it warps the time and space around it. NASA often uses the analogy of a bowling ball placed on a foam mattress or trampoline to illustrate how the fabric of spacetime bends. Light that would otherwise travel straight curves and gets distorted as it passes through the warped spacetime.

In this scene, the nearer galaxy SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, is acting like a colossal magnifying glass in the sky. This allows scientists to see the even more distant galaxy, making it appear brighter.

But gravitational lenses are known to play tricks on the eyes: They have the power to even replicate objects, the way a funhouse mirror can create multiple irregular images.

Astronomers are now adept at spotting the telltale effects of gravitational lensing, but that wasn't always the case. Four decades ago, the concentric arcs of light and stretched celestial objects could be downright confusing.

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest objects ever detected in space. The arc was discovered near the galaxy cluster Abell 370, with another similar object near galaxy cluster 2242-02.

Later that year, scientists at Stanford University and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Arizona sorted out that they were, in fact, optical illusions, distorted by Abell 370. The New York Times published a story about the "bizarre" implication of Einstein's theory, titled "Vast Cosmic Object Downgraded to a Mirage."

Einstein rings happen when a lensed object lines up with its magnifying object. Depending on how precisely they align, an Einstein ring can either look like a full or partial circle around the object in the foreground. 

This particular Einstein ring was discovered by a citizen scientist, someone who volunteered time to help review images, through SPACE WARPS. The project relies on crowdsourcing to search for gravitational lenses in space images.

Gravitational lenses have become a handy tool for studying galaxies otherwise too faint or distant to detect, extending the range of telescopes. Because light from this distant source takes time to reach Hubble, astronomers are seeing HerS 020941.1+001557 as it was about 11 billion years ago, long before the universe gave birth to the sun and Earth.

And — surprise — there's actually a third galaxy photo-bombing this picture. It's called SDSS J020941.23+001600.7, and it appears to be intersecting part of that red curve. 

Just when you thought you knew all the worlds in the solar system, astronomers go and discover a new object that could rewrite the space map. 

This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and scientists mean "distant" quite literally. At its farthest point, it's more than 1,600 times the distance of Earth from the sun. At its closest, it's still 44.5 times farther than Earth.

What makes 2017 OF201 stand out is its very stretched-out path around the sun, which takes an incredible 25,000 Earth-years to complete. For comparison, Pluto makes a lap around the sun every 248 Earth-years. 

How this world got to the edge of the solar system is a mystery — perhaps the result of close encounters with a giant planet like Jupiter or Neptune that tossed it out into a wide orbit. Or maybe when it was originally ejected, it ended up in the so-called Oort Cloud before returning. The Oort Cloud is thought to be a sphere of ancient, icy objects surrounding the solar system. NASA says the cloud remains a theory because the comets there have been too faint and distant to be directly observed.

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery on May 21. At roughly 435 miles wide, 2017 OF201 could qualify as a dwarf planet, the same designation Pluto has had since its demotion from ninth planet in 2006. 

"Even though advances in telescopes have enabled us to explore distant parts of the universe," said Sihao Cheng, the Institute for Advanced Study researcher who led the discovery, in a statement, "there is still a great deal to discover about our own solar system."

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Cheng, along with Princeton University graduate students, found the possible dwarf planet while searching for a potential "Planet 9," a hypothetical hidden world whose gravitational effects could be responsible for a strange clustering of far-flung objects beyond Neptune.

The team used computer programs to look through years of space pictures taken by the Victor M. Blanco Telescope in Chile and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. By connecting bright spots that moved slowly across the sky, they were able to identify it.

These are the current orbits of Pluto, Neptune, and 2017 OF201. Credit: Jiaxuan Li / Sihao Cheng infographic

But 2017 OF201 is a strange outlier because it doesn’t follow the clustering pattern of other trans-Neptunian objects.

"The existence of 2017 OF201 might suggest that Planet 9 or X doesn't exist," said Jiaxuan Li, one of the collaborators, on his personal website. Their research is available now on the arXiv pre-print server. 

The discovery also challenges many scientists' notion of the outer solar system. The area beyond the Kuiper Belt, where the object is located, has previously been thought of as fairly empty. NASA's New Horizons probe, which snapped pictures of Pluto and its moons in 2015, has since more than doubled that distance, though surprisingly, it still hasn't reached the edge of the belt. 

That could mean the spacecraft will travel billions of more miles before reaching interstellar space, a region that is no longer influenced by the sun's radiation and particles. In 2019, New Horizons snapped photos of an icy red dumbbell-shaped thing, named Arrokoth, the farthest object a spacecraft has ever encountered. 

If 2017 OF201 only spends 1 percent of its orbit close enough for people to detect it, that may imply what lies outside the Kuiper Belt is not so empty after all. 

"The presence of this single object suggests that there could be another hundred or so other objects with similar orbit and size, " Cheng said. "They are just too far away to be detectable now."

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