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

Happy Friday, puzzle fanatics! If today's Connections game has you scratching your head, Newsweek is here to help. The brainteaser, which was released by The New York Times last year and has since skyrocketed in popularity,

The NYT Wordle December 27 edition is out for players to crack. Each day, this interesting game provides players with a 5-letter word to solve, which also tests one’s vocabulary and guessing skills. The puzzle gives you a total of six chances to get the word right,

It’s been a busy month for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a $1.22 billion ahead of a Dec. 27 drawing, after a Christmas Eve drawing failed to yield a winner. That makes it the largest such prize for either of the two big multistate lottery games — Mega Millions and Powerball — in the holiday-filled month of December,

Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot is $1.15 billion, or $516.1 million in cash. The prize surged since its last drawing on Christmas Eve, when no winner took home the estimated $1 billion jackpot. If won Friday,