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Today’s Wordle puzzle is a bit difficult. For some reason, I never think to guess the first letter in this word, so I had to use almost all my guesses. 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 no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

Today’s Wordle answer has two vowels.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with D.

Wordle hint No. 4: Partnered up

The two vowels in today’s Wordle answer are next to each other.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to making someone feel intimidated or apprehensive.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is DAUNT.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Aug. 1, No. 1504 was BANJO.

Recent Wordle answers

July 28, No. 1500: SAVVY

July 29, No. 1501: OMEGA

July 30, No. 1502: ASSAY

July 31, No. 1503: FRILL

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If you know which team is the «New York Yankees of Japan,» you’ll have a good shot at conquering the purple category for today’s Connections: Sports Edition. Stuck? Read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta, 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 for 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: Unsung heroes.

Green group hint: This is company.

Blue group hint: NCAA bigwigs.

Purple group hint: Towering.

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: Workers at a stadium.

Green group: Used to describe a 3-pointer.

Blue group: Men’s college basketball coaches.

Purple group: _____ Giants.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is workers at a stadium. The four answers are concession staff, grounds crew, security and usher.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is used to describe a 3-pointer. The four answers are 3, beyond the arc, downtown and trey.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is men’s college basketball coaches. The four answers are Few, Oats, Painter and Pope.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is _____ Giants. The four answers are Little, New York, San Francisco and Yomiuri.

You may not need to add «Reddit» to your Google searches for much longer — now, you can go straight to the source.

In his Q2 letter to shareholders, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company will integrate its search function with Reddit Answers, which is currently available in the US and 11 other countries, «into a single search experience.»

Reddit will make the search box more visible on the app, bringing it «front and center.» 

«Whether you’re a new user opening the app for the first time or returning user opening the app, that search box will be present immediately for users who open the app looking for something specific,» Huffman said. «Sometimes people are opening the app with a question.»

This seems a natural direction for Reddit, which now has more than 70 million weekly active users on its search function and more than 6 million weekly active users using Reddit Answers. Huffman believes Reddit is ideally positioned in a world where people are increasingly wanting human-powered answers to searches driven by their massive amount of Reddit chats.

«80% of users in a recent survey that they believe some questions can only be answered by humans as opposed to AI-generated summaries,» Huffman said on the call.

There does seem to be a demand for Reddit as a source of information and answers from users. Profound, a platform that helps elevate brand visibility in AI search environments, said that Reddit was the No. 1 most cited source for AI platforms Google Overviews and Perplexity, and No. 2 for ChatGPT among searches. Profound said that Reddit’s percentage on Perplexity, 46.7%, showed a «strong preference for community-generated content» among searchers.

Vanessa Fox, digital marketing consultant and author of Marketing in the Age of Google, called Reddit’s shift toward search a wise one. 

«It’s a smart idea as it’s certainly the case that people seek out Reddit specifically when searching Google by adding ‘Reddit’ to their search query, and so the demand is there,» Fox told CNET. «With apps becoming such a standard part of the online experience, people have gotten even more accustomed to using search experiences other than Google for specific types of content — TikTok is an obvious example of that.»

In its 2025 Q2 earnings report, Reddit showed a 78% jump in revenue from the same time last year, to $500 million. Huffman said daily active users are now at 110 million, an increase of 21% from last year at this same time.

Fox added that Reddit will need to be watchful for more AI spam. 

«When Google started featuring Reddit results more prominently in search results, spammers — many using AI content — flocked to Reddit and started posting in threads that already ranked well in Google, as well as creating new posts in Reddit in an attempt to use the ranking power of Reddit to show up in Google,» Fox told CNET. «Reddit now has to combat that. So if this unified search is successful, they likely will have to combat even more AI content, which unfortunately is the landscape that we’re in.»