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this is our most cutesy tiles palette yet 🍊 nyti.ms/4csCTXe

Are you the speediest solver in your group chat? Solve the Mini Crossword any day until the 21st and submit your time. We're spotlighting players who solved in 30 seconds or fewer: nyti.ms/3M9lsA1

Three days left to enter! 📣 Solve the Mini Crossword any day between Aug. 14–21 and submit your time for a chance to see your name in our Hall of Fame. 😍 nyti.ms/3YRt6H8

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how quickly you solved the Mini Crossword - your daily Crossword streak - that time you solved Wordle in two guesses

📻 while you're here, listen to our editors on Connecticut Public Radio (Connecticut Public) 🤩 nyti.ms/4czRMaf

I’m told the hints on today’s Spelling Bee forum should be fixed now. Thanks for your patience #hivemind !!! Happy solving 🐝❤️

Can you name a 5-letter CBS Mornings host? For the last 10 years, Joel Fagliano has been building the New York Times Games Mini Crossword every single day — and he stopped by to share his process with an impromptu puzzle.

Today's Spelling Bee hints now match the puzzle. Thanks for your patience, solvers! Now see if you can get to Queen Bee. 🐝 nyti.ms/46V0KO3

you are not "demure" you brag about your streak

What started as a goal became an obsession for Young Chung, who blazed through more than 3,000 puzzles in just a few months. "All I could think about was the Mini," she said. "If I didn’t do at least two or three months of grids in a day, I got antsy." nyti.ms/3YTBeGR

HAPPY TENTH ANNIVERSARY TO THE NEW YORK TIMES MINI CROSSWORD

Today is the ten-year anniversary of our Mini Crossword. It's also the last day to submit your Mini time to the leaderboard. 🥇 nyti.ms/3YWdzpg

3,655 minis in seven months ... no one is doing it like her nyti.ms/4dEQbRC

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joel describes some of his all-timers. do you remember these minis? ⬜️ ⬛️

Want to ace Connections? We’ve got all the tips you need from its editors and solvers. Our best one: Don’t let the pursuit of a “perfect” solve stand in the way of having a good time. 🥇 nyti.ms/3Xpx3R1

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something's telling me Sam Ezersky made this puzzle ... idk what tho ... nyti.ms/3XlwCbm

🚨Highly requested feature alert 🚨 From mistakes to perfect puzzles, Connections statistics and streaks are finally here. Check it out 👉 nyti.ms/4e0FOYs