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Shop Amazon Gaming Week Deals and Upgrade Your Setup for Less

Deal of the day: Don’t miss your chance to save on PC and console gaming hardware, essential accessories and more.

Amazon just kicked off a huge gaming promotion offering discounts on PC and console gaming devices, games and accessories. Running May 22 through May 28, Amazon’s Gaming Week offers a rare chance to save on some of the best products from reputable gaming brands outside of big events like Prime Day and Black Friday.

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With everything from prebuilt gaming PCs and gaming laptops to headsets, mics, components and even gaming-related media like movies and books, there’s something for every gamer in this sale. To make things easier for you, we’ve pulled out a few of our favorite deals below. The deals are all limited in time, though, so you don’t want to wait on grabbing anything you need.

Sony InZone H7 wireless headset: $148 (save $82)

This wireless Sony PS5 headset also works with PCs and is back down to its lowest price to date. It offers an immersive over-ear design with 360-degree spatial sound and a flexible, flip-up boom mic.

Razer Naga Pro wireless gaming mouse: $90 (save $60)

Razer makes several gaming mice, but the Naga Pro is among the most customizable with its three interchangeable side plates and up to 19 programmable buttons. Today’s price is within $5 of its best ever.

Razer Blade 14: $2,000 (save $500)

Our favorite small gaming laptop is seeing a steep $800 discount right now returning it to its best-ever price. We like that it delivers a lot of gaming power for its size without feeling small, offers decent battery life and is a nice size for travel.

ROG Strix G15 gaming desktop PC: $1,100 (save $330)

If you want a solid, entry-level desktop gaming PC without breaking the bank, the ROG Strix G15 is worth a look at a new record-low price. It’s equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics, 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD.

Samsung 27-inch Odyssey G6 gaming monitor: $410 (save $290)

Down to a new all-time low price, this curved Samsung monitor offers a QHD resolution, 240Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro for smooth gameplay. It also works as a smart TV.

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Oct. 22 #598

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Oct. 22, No. 598.

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

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one — I definitely have at least two of these in my house. Some of the answers are a bit tough to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Catch all.

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: A mess of items.

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

BATE, LICE, SLUM, CAPE, HOLE, CARE, BARE, THEN, SLAM, SAMBA, BACK

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

TAPE, COIN, PENCIL, BATTERY, SHOELACE, THUMBTACK

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is JUNKDRAWER. To find it, look for the J that’s five letters down on the far-left row, and wind down, over and then up.

Quick tips for Strands

#1: To get more clue words, see if you can tweak the words you’ve already found, by adding an «S» or other variants. And if you find a word like WILL, see if other letters are close enough to help you make SILL, or BILL.

#2: Once you get one theme word, look at the puzzle to see if you can spot other related words.

#3: If you’ve been given the letters for a theme word, but can’t figure it out, guess three more clue words, and the puzzle will light up each letter in order, revealing the word.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Oct. 22, #1586

Here are hints and the answer for today’s Wordle for Oct. 22, No. 1,586.

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.

Today’s Wordle puzzle features some letters I don’t often guess, but it’s not terribly difficult. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need 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 one repeated letter.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with S.

Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends with T.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to an action displaying spectacular skill and daring.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is STUNT.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Oct. 21, No. 1,585 was DETOX.

Recent Wordle answers

Oct. 17, No. 1,581: GROSS
Oct. 18, No. 1,582: HAVEN
Oct. 19, No. 1,583: IDEAL
Oct. 20, No. 1,584: LIMBO

Quick tips for Wordle

#1: Check our list ranking the popularity of all the letters in the alphabet and choose your starter words accordingly. (TRAIN, STERN and AUDIO are good.)

#2: Don’t forget that letters can be used more than once.

#3: Many words are similar. You don’t want to use up multiple guesses that don’t advance your cause. So if the puzzle is STA_E, don’t guess STARE, STATE and STALE. Guess something that uses that R, T and L, like TWIRL.