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Kimono Cats Frolic Onto Apple Arcade

They’re cats. They’re wearing kimonos. It’s adorable.

Kimono Cats, a mini-game filled adventure, sauntered onto Apple Arcade Friday. If you subscribe to Apple Arcade ($5, £5 or AU$8 a month), you can play this game free of cost, ads or in-app purchases.

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Kimono Cats was developed by independent studio HumaNature Studios, best known for Doki-Doki Universe and ToeJam & Earl: Back In the Groove.

In Kimono Cats, you walk through a Japanese festival, called a matsuri. Along the way, you try to keep your companion happy by giving them treats, piggy-back rides and winning prizes from any of the game stalls along the route. But you can also give your companion burnt or poisoned treats, which they — like any person or cat — won’t like.

The core of Kimono Cats revolves around playing a handful of different mini-games modeled after festival games, like catching fish with a net, hitting targets with a ball and a Whac-A-Mole-type thing played with masks instead of moles. You can use the prizes and coins you win from these games to buy decorations for your home village that your character hopes will impress their companion.

The mini-games are fun, the animation is cute, but most importantly, you and your companion are cats who are wearing kimonos. If that doesn’t sell you on it, nothing will.

Apple Arcade adds new games and updates every week. If you’re interested in trying Apple Arcade, you can get a three-month free trial when you buy a new device, or one month for free if you’re signing up for the first time. Open the App Store and tap the joystick icon at the bottom of the screen to launch the service.

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Kia Is Bringing an Electric Truck to the US: What We Know So Far

Kia is joining the EV pickup segment. Here’s everything you need to know right now.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 19, #1400

Here are hints — and the answer — for today’s Wordle No. 1,400 for April 19.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

One of the letters in today’s Wordle puzzle almost never appears in answers — or the English language, for that matter. If that’s not enough of a hint, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. (Look down at the bottom to find this particular letter.) If you need more hints and the answer, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with I.

Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends in one of the rarest letters in the alphabet. See our list for a full ranking.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a place where emails are received and stored.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is INBOX.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, April 18, No. 1399 was DIRGE.

Recent Wordle answers

April 14, No. 1395: CREST

April 15, No. 1396: ASHEN

April 16, No. 1397: MORAL

April 17, No. 1398: STOOD

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 19, #208

Hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 208, for April 19.

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.

Isn’t the purple category in Connections: Sports Edition supposed to be the hardest? Today, I thought it was the easiest — but then I love old stadiums and tend to remember their names. If you do too, you’ll ace at least one grouping today. Read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online.

Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Rocky’s stock in trade.

Green group hint: Get those three points.

Blue group hint: Boston hoops stars.

Purple group hint: There used to be a ballpark, as Sinatra sang.