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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 10, #199
Hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 199, for April 10.

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Connections: Sports Edition might be tough today. But if you’re tuned in to a specific tournament happening this week, the blue category should be easy for you. Read on for hints and the answers.
Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta after 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 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: Whoops!
Green group hint: Hut-hut!
Blue group hint: Fore!
Purple group hint: More than two.
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Yellow group: Lose control of the ball.
Green group: Football positions, abbreviated.
Blue group: Masters winners.
Purple group: Triple ____.
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What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is lose control of the ball. The four answers are bobble, fumble, juggle and muff.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is football positions, abbreviated. The four answers are CB, DT, P and WR.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is Masters winners. The four answers are Couples, Players, Rahm and Woods.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is triple ____. The four answers are A, crown, double and play.
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Meta Says Its New AI Model Understands Physical Rules Like Gravity
The new model could allow robots to better predict changes in their environment and make better decisions.

A new generative AI model Meta released this week could change how machines understand the physical world, opening up opportunities for smarter robots and more, the company said.
The new open-source model, called Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture 2, or V-JEPA 2, is designed to help artificial intelligence understand things like gravity and object permanence, Meta said.
«By sharing this work, we aim to give researchers and developers access to the best models and benchmarks to help accelerate research and progress,» the company said in a blog post, «ultimately leading to better and more capable AI systems that will help enhance people’s lives.»
Current models that allow AI to interact with the physical world rely on labeled data or video to mimic reality, but this approach emphasizes the logic of the physical world, including how objects move and interact. The model could allow AI to understand concepts like the fact that a ball rolling off of a table will fall.
Meta said the model could be useful for devices like autonomous vehicles and robots by ensuring they don’t need to be trained on every possible situation. The company called it a step toward AI that can adapt like humans can.
One struggle in the space of physical AI has been the need for significant amounts of training data, which takes time, money and resources. At SXSW earlier this year, experts said synthetic data — training data created by AI — could help prepare a more traditional learning model for unexpected situations. (In Austin, the example used was the emergence of bats from the city’s famed Congress Avenue Bridge.)
Meta said its new model simplifies the process and makes it more efficient for real-world applications because it doesn’t rely on all of that training data.
The next steps for world models include training models that are capable of learning, reasoning and planning across different time and space scales, making them better at breaking down complicated tasks. Multimodal models, that can use other senses like audio and touch in addition to vision, will also help future AI models understand the real world.
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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 13, #467
Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 467 for June 13.
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Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a fun and seasonal group of words. If you need hints and answers, read on.
I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.
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Hint for today’s Strands puzzle
Today’s Strands theme is: Scattering petals
If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Name game
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:
- TRITE, RITE, RITES, VILE, LAZY, PENT, GRAIN, RAIN, DIRE, GRAN, LEAR, SOUL, WEST, WETS, RUNT, TURN, VOTE, UNITE, UNTIE, LUNG, TINE.
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:
- LILY, ROSE, DAISY, POPPY, AZALEA, VIOLET, PETUNIA
Today’s Strands spangram
Today’s Strands spangram is FLOWERGIRLS To find it, start with the F that’s the fifth letter to the right on the top row, and wind down.
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