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SAVE $500: As of April 4, the DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That's $500 off the list price and the best-ever price at Amazon.

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Between looming U.S. import bans and the chaos of the Amazon Spring Sale, the drone market is in a weird state of flux right now. We haven't seen DJI stock vanish from digital shelves just yet, but the uncertainty is real. Is that uncertainty driving sales? Or is it record-low prices? We honestly don't know, but we're doing our best to keep tabs on all the new price drops.

As of April 2, the DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo is down to $1,099 at Amazon — matching its all-time low and a massive $500 off the list price.

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The DJI Mini 5 Pro is the gold standard for creators who want pro-grade footage without all the bulk. It packs a one-inch CMOS sensor capable of 4K HDR at 60fps, but the real catch is the 4K/120fps slow-motion for those epic, sweeping landscape shots. If you’re a night owl, the 360-degree Nightscape sensing and specialized nighttime Return-to-Home function mean you can fly in the dark without fretting over your investment.

We’ve seen this $1,099 price before, but we've never seen anything better. It feels like the discounts have peaked here, so if you're interested in upping your content creation game with the help of a drone, we recommend jumping on this deal.

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Managing multiple AI tools can quickly turn into a messy (and expensive) workflow. Between separate subscriptions, switching tabs, and learning different interfaces, the time spent organizing your tools can start to outweigh the time you actually spend creating.

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Instead of relying on a single model, 1min.AI gives you access to a range of leading AI systems — including GPT, Claude, Gemini, and others — so you can choose the best tool for the task without leaving the platform. That flexibility can make a noticeable difference, especially when switching between writing, brainstorming, coding, or research.

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TL;DR: Enjoy beloved Microsoft Office apps with AI capabilities thanks to this Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business for Mac or PC lifetime license, on sale now for $99.97 (reg. $249.99) through April 12.

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What would you do with a few extra hours every week? If you get Microsoft Office apps equipped with AI, you’ll need to start thinking about it. This suite is ready to help you tackle work, play, and everything in between, and now, armed with AI, they’ll make you more efficient than ever.

Right now, you can secure a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business for Mac or PC for only $99.97 until April 12.

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Whether you’re a devoted Windows user or a Mac enthusiast, you’ll want to take advantage of this Microsoft upgrade. Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business gives your device five new tools to work with, and they’re all ready to make your life a little easier.

This lifetime license lets you dodge monthly subscription fees and own these five apps outright. It includes Microsoft staples that have been around for decades — like Word for document creation, Excel for spreadsheet creation, Outlook for email management, and PowerPoint for presentations. You’ll also receive a new favorite, OneNote, which takes your note-taking into the 21st century.

This edition gives you access to these apps with AI enhancements. Take advantage of text, formatting, and design suggestions, or let AI help analyze your data, identify trends, or build better charts and graphics in Excel. In PowerPoint, you can now record presentations with voice, video, and closed captions. There’s also a new Focus Mode option in Word that lets you concentrate on your work.

Normally $249.99, this Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business for Mac or PC lifetime license can be yours for only $99.97 now through April 12.

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TL;DR: Enjoy all the bells and whistles from Apple at a fraction of the price with this Macbook Pro, on sale now for $429.97 (reg. $1,999) through April 19.

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How much time do you lose waiting on your current laptop? If you’re looking for a device that won’t slow you down, look no further than the MacBook Pro. Apple’s most powerful laptop usually comes with a pretty hefty price tag, but if you act fast, you can bring one home for just $429.97 until April 19.

You need a laptop that can keep up with your life, and the MacBook Pro is up for the challenge. This model is powered by a 10th Gen Intel Core i5 processor that has a 2GHz base speed and a Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, so it’s ready to multitask. It also offers 16GB of RAM so it can handle video editing, coding, and other demanding tasks.

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If you’re tired of lugging around clunky external hard drives, you’ll be delighted by this MacBook Pro’s 1TB of SSD storage. Save important files locally, while still enjoying enough space for your favorite apps. It’s also equipped with a Magic Keyboard with a Touch Bar, so you can type comfortably and enjoy easy access to shortcuts.

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Bring home this Macbook Pro for just $429.97 (reg. $1,999) now through April 19, while supplies last.

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Last year, Jay Duplass directed the brilliantly funny Baltimorons, which starred co-writer Michael Strassner as an improv comedian who finds a new lease on life through an unexpected friendship with an ornery dentist. This year, Duplass offers a sibling film of sorts as his follow-up, adapting stand-up comedian Adam Cayton-Holland's memoir, Tragedy Plus Time, into the drama See You When I See You. 

Where The Baltimorons centered on (and starred) a comedian dealing with suicidal ideation, See You When I See You focuses on a family grieving the loss of their sister and daughter to suicide. Cayton-Holland wrote the adapted screenplay for See You When I See You, but unlike Strassner, he does not star in the resulting film. Instead, Duplass casts indie ingedude Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth, Shithouse) to play the lead of a comedian who can't cope when confronting the death of his younger sister, Leah (Kaitlyn Dever). 

While the supporting cast is made up of compelling performers, including David Duchovny, Lucy Boynton, and Hope Davis, See You When I See You is hampered by a leading man who cannot shoulder the emotional weight of this story. 

See You When I See You explores a family's suicide loss.

Two months after Leah's death by suicide, the Whistler family is cleaning out her apartment. Older sister Emily (Boynton) is determinedly trying to catch the koi fish that her whimsical sibling kept in a pond not approved by the landlord. Their lawyer father Robert (Duchovny) is buttoning up paperwork, while his wife Page (Davis) is rejecting the idea of a funeral for her youngest child. Meanwhile, middle child Aaron (Raiff) is lost in thought looking at an old photo of the whole family. 

See You When I See You explores a different way of coping with grief through each character. Emily, who has a kid and husband to look after along with her father's law firm, finds comfort in grounding herself in a task. Robert invests himself in making sure his wife and other children are okay, but can't rest because they definitely are not. Page is shutting herself off from everything — the pain of this loss, her family's attention, and even the panic when she discovers a lump in her breast. Aaron is embracing chaos and rejecting therapy. 

Aaron's ghosted a could-be girlfriend. He's bailing on work at his comedy writing job. He's falling into memories of his younger sister that warp into nightmare scenarios. For instance, recalling the last night they hung out, he and Leah are bullshitting happily at a bar. But a conversation that once felt mundane now carries a great, horrible importance because it was their last. As she talks, the paneled ceiling of the bar gives away to reveal a ravenous black hole, seeking to suck up anything it can, including Leah. In his distorted memory, Aaron calls out to her, demanding to understand why. 

This imagery recurs in See You When I See You. It's effective because, yeah, that's what grief can feel like, an insatiable sucking hole eager to gobble us up without mercy. These scenes are all the more disturbing because of how nonchalantly Dever plays them. While Raiff shrieks in terror, she is casual when facing her character's oblivion. This visual and dissonance well reflects the anger Aaron has at his sister, but Raiff himself falls flat in selling the emotion.

Cooper Raiff drags down See You When I See You. 

Whether he's flirting awkwardly with a crush, bickering with his older sister, or cajoling his mother, Aaron's every move feels like a performance. Raiff's approach to the material is too broad to blend with the rest of the cast. And perhaps that is intentional, meant to echo how Aaron, as a comedian, is ill-equipped to cope with something so serious. But that approach would only work if Raiff's performance becomes grounded or nuanced at some point, and it just doesn't. 

His fumbling becomes frustrating as Aaron's story overtakes the plotline, though his sister's and his parents' respective narrative arcs are much more compelling. Page and Robert, who in flashbacks are radiantly in love, can barely be in the same room. He craves her, but her hurt can't allow her to be vulnerable in conversation or copulation. In quiet moments alone, both Davis and Duchovny silently seethe with heartache that is almost deafening. 

They're good. But Boynton (The Greatest Hits) is brilliant and blistering. In the hands of a lesser actress, Emily might come off as obnoxiously bossy or coldly arrogant. But Boynton's performance makes clear that Emily's efforts to bully the family into group tasks — like cleaning out Leah's home and planning a funeral — are her way of bringing them together to heal. She may practically spit when arguing with her irresponsible brother, but it's out of a frustration that she's expected to still be a mother, wife, and eldest daughter, while everyone else gives him space to be the goofball. 

See You When I See You is flawed but beautiful. 

Raiff's failure as a leading man hurts this drama, but doesn't ruin it. Cayton-Holland's script is thoughtful in making the internal external. So, fears about what comes after are spun into a beautiful flashback where the Whistler father tells his kids about the boundless wonders of outer space and the strange fluidity of time. Flashbacks transformed into battlegrounds make for a rich venue to act out Aaron's battle for mental health. Bickering with a sister who is now a memory, we're invited into not just his past but how it feels to him now. 

Duplass' cinematographer Jim Frohna wisely favors a handheld camera for such dramatic moments. The rocking sensation of the frame gives the sense of hesitation. You can practically feel your own feet bracing with uncertainty whether to push forward into a scary future, or hang back in the certain but familiar pain of the present. This mindful unsteadiness subtly bolsters the film's earnest emotional fragility. But again, its leading man cannot create this same effect. Rather then revealing, Raiff is constantly mugging in glee, grief, and whatever else. He feels a stooge in the middle of a tragedy, and while that makes sense for the film's first half — perhaps reflecting Cayton-Holland's own insecurity about his coping skills — the second half offers no growth in this vein. So, Raiff becomes more a distraction from the secondary storylines, instead of the solid center of the film. 

And yet, I wept my face off watching See You When I See You. Despite Raiff's fumbled attempts at depth, Duplass and the rest of his ensemble gracefully capture the hardship of mourning a death by suicide. That life goes on feels both a blessing and curse in such times. And See You When I See You explores that, overall, with humane nuance. 

See You When I See You was reviewed out of the SXSW Film Festival. It does not yet have a release date.

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After eight time-jumping, case-blending episodes, Scarpetta ends with a bang. Well, more of a bludgeon.

The Prime Video series based on Patricia Cornwell's books — namely, the first Dr. Kay Scarpetta book, Postmortem (1990), and Autopsy (2021) — finishes up its first season with some answers, but then leaves major question marks and red herrings flapping about in the air.

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Let's get into what happened, what Scarpetta (Nicole Kidman/Rosy McEwen) found out, and what burning questions we have for Season 2 (which Amazon has confirmed is coming). Obviously, spoilers ahead.

Who is killed in Scarpetta? Nicole Kidman as Scarpetta. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

Scarpetta could have really given us more information about the murder victims.

In 2026, there are two women murdered: Gwen Hainey, biomedical engineer at Thor Labs, who was selling U.S. biotech secrets to Russia, and runner Cammie Ramada, whose death was ruled as "accidental" despite being anything but.

In 1998, there are five women murdered: ER surgeon Lori Petersen's killing begins the series, after the murders of Cecile Tyler, Brenda Steppe, and Patty Lewis. Then, journalist Abby Turnbull's (Sosie Bacon) sister, Hannah, is also murdered.

Who is the killer in Scarpetta? Jake Cannavale as Pete Marino, Rosy McEwen as Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

There are two killers in Scarpetta, one in the past and one in the present.

1998 killer: Roy McCorkle

Through glittery government soap and emergency call records, '90s Scarpetta figured out the identity of the serial killer she, homicide detective Pete Marino (Jake Cannavale), and FBI profiler Benton Wesley (Hunter Parrish) had been investigating. The killer is Roy McCorkle (Martin De Boer), a local 911 dispatcher who had chosen his victims based on their voices.

2026 killer: August Ryan

In the present, the murderer is revealed to be a copycat. Officer August Ryan, the braces-wearing cop Scarpetta has worked with since the '90s murders, is the killer of Gwen Hainey and Cammie Ramada.

Scarpetta first meets Officer Ryan at the murder scene of Lori Peterson in Berkley Heights in 1998. "I was never the first on a scene before, of a grisly murder," he tells her, visibly affected by the violence. This murder ignited Ryan's penchant for violence but his traumatic past also played a part (more on that below). Later, at the scene of McCorkle's death, Ryan calls him a "murdering bastard," and scorns "what he did to those women," despite those being actions he will repeat 28 years later.

In 2026, Ryan is the first person Scarpetta talks to at the crime scene where Gwen Hainey is found in episode 1. Ryan leads Scarpetta to the victim, pretending to have just encountered the scene he created. Ryan then meets Scarpetta and Marino at the condo where Gwen Hainey was attacked — he even smugly declares that he "found" the murder weapon and reports that Matt Peterson's fingerprints are all over it (Lori Peterson's husband, the main suspect of the 1998 murders), which sends Scarpetta and Marino off course. In episode 4, Ryan does it again, leading medical examiner Dr. Debbie Kaminsky (Ashley Shelton) to Cammie Ramada's body, a crime scene he also created.

Motive? "I did it to impress just the right gal," Ryan says in the finale, referring to Scarpetta herself.

What's with the 3D-printed organ business?

In Scarpetta, Thor Labs is a tech company that 3D prints human organs. And though the storyline goes off on a tangent with dead astronauts, the most important thing is that the company links the murder victims in 2026.

Gwen Hainey and Cammie Ramada both bear skin grafts, pieces of biosynthetic skin made by Thor Labs. Remember, Hainey was a biomedical engineer there, working on the Thor Orbiter Project (3D printing human organs in space). In the finale, Scarpetta receives a call from Officer Blaise Fruge (Tiya Sircar) saying there was a third person in Thor's skin test group, but Fruge is cut off before naming them.

"That's how he met them," Fruge says. "They were in the same group."

That person? August Ryan, who, as a child, burned his arm on a train track the night he witnessed his uncle committing sexual assault. Presumably, Ryan was after a skin graft. As to the pennies? Ryan's uncle distracted him with a penny during his crime, one the kid was trying to retrieve from the hot track when he was burned; pennies were left at the murder sites of Gwen Hainey and Cammie Ramada, and Scarpetta finds a penny on her dining room table.

What's the deal with Maggie and Reddy?

Maggie Cutbush (Stephanie Faracy/Georgia King) spends the present-day storyline basically being a creep and an anti-feminist pain in the ass, but there's more going on here than meets the eye.

In the '90s, Maggie was appointed Scarpetta's assistant when her computer was hacked for information about the Peterson case. Scarpetta wrongfully accused Maggie and fired her. However, the culprit was Dr. Elvin Reddy (Alex Klein), Scarpetta's professional rival, who also tampered with evidence to discredit Kay.

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Now, Dr. Reddy is a piece of work. He wanted Scarpetta's job of Virginia's chief medical examiner back in the '90s, so always had a chip on his shoulder. Reddy hires Maggie as his own assistant, and the show suggests an abuse of power and sexual harassment. In episode 4, Scarpetta looks into Cammie Ramada's death, ruled as "undetermined" by medical examiner Kaminsky. But Scarpetta finds out that Reddy (chief medical examiner by this point) had shown up at the autopsy with a bunch of FBI agents (the crime scene goes across federal and district lines) and essentially bullied Kaminsky to rule Cammie Ramada's death an accident.

In the present, Maggie is deployed again as a "direct line" between Scarpetta's office and Reddy, now health commissioner (and Scarpetta's boss). Importantly, Reddy and Maggie know Scarpetta's secret: She killed McCorkle in self-defense in the '90s — and Marino covered it up for her. Scarpetta did the autopsy, then lied about the findings, but notably, Reddy came into the morgue and indicated he knew there was more to the killer's death than Marino's bullets.

In the finale, Maggie flips the script telling Scarpetta she has proof to bring their dodgy boss down. "Pick a crime," she says. "I'll get you everything you need to nail the bastard. Leave me out of it, and I'll leave you out of it."

What's going on with Benton Wesley? Simon Baker as Benton Wesley. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

Scarpetta's cardboard husband, Benton Wesley, has dark secrets. We know he left his wife and kids for Kay, and is having an affair with his FBI cybercrime partner Sierra Patron (Anna Diop). We also know he had a traumatic childhood involving neurodivergence and reading disturbing material before his career as a serial killer profiler.

In the finale, Scarpetta tracks Wesley to his definitely illegal interrogation truck at home using Find My Friends, and he warns her to stop investigating Gwen Hainey and Cammie Ramada "before it's too late" without elaborating. He's also sent hacker Jinx Slater (Luke Jones) to jail for his girlfriend Gwen Hainey's murder, presumably to keep the FBI's Thor Orbiter investigation under wraps.

However, during the scene, Wesley gets...creepy, saying he has some "strange behaviours" and that "there are some creatures that I enjoy to watch suffer," which seems like he's about to confess to his "real self" being real dark. We all saw him watch that fly die in pain, and we won't forget his creepy childhood lair in the basement. But then he simply asks for a divorce. What a fake-out.

Is Matt Peterson actually innocent?

Matt Peterson (Graham Phillips/Anson Mount), the husband of Lori Peterson, appears to be Scarpetta's red herring. He's the guy Marino (Bobby Cannavale) suspected and punched, who runs a cultish grief farm (where Lucy inexplicably ends up in the finale — girl, wyd). But is he actually as innocent as he seems? Sure, he just happened to meet Gwen Hainey in a bar trying to bring his wife back to life with 3D-printed organs. But in episode 1, when a young Marino is interviewing a young Peterson, the suspect mentions one of the first things he noticed meeting Lori in college was her "contralto" voice. "Stopped me in my tracks," he says. "Its actual tone was perfection." Marino counters, asking, "You notice a thing like that, huh?" How did McCorkle choose his victims? Their voices. Still a red herring?

Who "killed" Janet? Ariana DeBose as Lucy Farinelli-Watson. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

Both Kay and Dorothy (Jamie Lee Curtis) say they didn't "kill" Janet, the AI version of Lucy's (Ariana DeBose) wife that she's been talking to daily since her real death, but she's sure one of them did it. So, was it one of them? Or was it, say, Blaise Fruge, who wanted to exact a little bit of revenge on her lover for walking out during their argument about Blaise losing her job thanks to Lucy's "joy ride" to The Orchard? Or perhaps Janet did find a code back door to walk out of...

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Who's at the door?

In the final moments of Scarpetta, we see that Kay has absolutely baseball-batted Ryan to death. Then, someone arrives at the door, sees everything, and Scarpetta's reaction is one of pure shock: "Oh no."

Who could it be? Is it Lucy coming home from her grief session? Is it Marino coming back to declare his feelings? Is it Fruge, following her partner Ryan's whereabouts? Or is it someone we haven't met yet?

Scarpetta is now streaming on Prime Video.

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.

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

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Perspiration.

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SWEAT

Hurdle Word 2 hint

Typical.

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USUAL

Hurdle Word 3 hint

Needed to walk a dog.

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LEASH

Hurdle Word 4 hint

Smell.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

SCENT

Final Hurdle hint

To coast.

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DRIFT

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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're in the military.

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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SEE ALSO: NYT Pips hints, answers for April 4, 2026 Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

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

• Yellow: A common saying

• Green: To block

• Blue: Water's edge

• Purple: A military site

Here are today's Connections categories

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

• Yellow: "Let sleeping dogs lie"

• Green: Obscure

• Blue: Coastal landforms

• Purple: ___ Camp

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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 #1028 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• "Let sleeping dogs lie": DOGS, LET, LIE, SLEEPING

• Obscure: COVER, MASK, SCREEN, SHIELD

• Coastal landforms: BLUFF, CAPE, POINT, SPIT

• ___ Camp: BAND, BASE, BOOT, SUMMER

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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Are you also playing NYT Strands? Get all the Strands hints you need for today's puzzle.

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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you love springtime.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, 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 preferred pace.

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The words are related to plants.

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These words describe popular flowers.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Spring Blossom.

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NYT Strands word list for April 4

• Hyacinth

• Tulip

• Snowdrop

• Spring Blossom

• Daffodil

• Crocus

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Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you love the beach.

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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Dusty.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no recurring letters.

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

Today's Wordle starts with the letter S.

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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...

SANDY

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

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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