About DailyWordHints

DailyWordHints is an independent puzzle companion built on one idea: hints first, answers last. We help you stay in the game — getting unstuck when you need a nudge, without spoiling the satisfaction of solving it yourself.

We cover NYT Connections, Wordle, Strands, Spelling Bee, Sports Connections, Pips, Letter Boxed, and Betweenle. Every puzzle gets spoiler-free clues followed by the full answer tucked safely below the fold — ready when you want it, invisible when you don’t.

How our hints are made

Each day our publishing pipeline fetches the official puzzle data the moment it becomes available, then generates hints using a combination of Claude AI and rule-based analysis. Every hint passes an automated quality gate that rejects any clue containing an answer word — so we nudge your thinking without giving the game away.

For Wordle we produce six progressive clues: vowel count, starting letter, ending letter, repeated letters, the second letter, and a meaning hint. For Connections, each of the four groups gets an independent spoiler-free clue. Strands gets a theme hint and a separate spangram clue.

Accuracy & freshness

Puzzle data is fetched directly from the NYT API and normalised against the official answer. Our validation layer rejects any publish where the hint structure doesn’t match the puzzle data — if a hint fails validation, it retries automatically with a different approach before publishing.

Pages go live at midnight ET — the moment each NYT puzzle resets — so you never arrive to find yesterday’s hints.

Editorial independence

DailyWordHints is an independent site with no affiliation to, endorsement by, or sponsorship from The New York Times Company. All game names (Connections, Wordle, Strands, Spelling Bee) are trademarks of their respective owners. Our hints are our own editorial work and are not sourced from or approved by NYT.

We run a small number of ads to keep the site free. We do not sell user data, use tracking cookies, or require any registration.

Contact

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