Sukie

What the job actually involves

Eighteen games reset at six different times across three time zones, and each one has to be read, checked and published within minutes of its own midnight. The New York Times games change at midnight Eastern, except Spelling Bee at 3 AM. LinkedIn's eight roll over at midnight Pacific. The Dle family goes at midnight UTC, except Pokedle at 6 AM UTC. The pipeline handles the fetching; the editing, the checking and the judgement calls do not automate.

The daily work is: read what the pipeline pulled, compare it against a second source, look at the rendered board to make sure it matches the puzzle as played, read the commentary the system drafted and rewrite whatever reads wrong, then publish. On a normal day that is twenty minutes. On a day when LinkedIn corrects a puzzle mid-morning, or a game changes its mode line-up without warning, it is longer.

How the guides get written

The strategy content on this site comes from playing the games daily and keeping notes, not from reading other people's posts. The purple-group mechanisms catalogued on the Connections guide are tallied from boards as they ran. The four deductions on the Queens guide are the moves that actually solve the boards, written down after enough Sundays of getting stuck on the same one. The Pinpoint category shapes are a taxonomy built from the puzzles, not from LinkedIn's help page — which says nothing about strategy at all.

That is also why the guides get revised rather than written once. Games change: Crossclimb's ordering mechanic arrived after launch, Zip added walls a couple of months in, Connections' purple tier drifted from 'obscure set' to 'wordplay' over a year. When a guide's claim stops being true, the guide changes and the page's updated date changes with it.

On the byline and privacy

The byline is a real person with a real photo, because a site that publishes answers people rely on should say who is responsible for them. Beyond that, this page is deliberately about the work rather than the worker: no location, no employer, no life story. None of it would help you judge whether today's Strands answer is right.

What is worth knowing is the accountability. Every page shows who wrote it and when it was last changed. Corrections go to a person, not a form, and are published the same day. Nothing on this site is written by an anonymous byline or an invented persona — the editorial policy sets out exactly which parts are drafted with AI assistance and which are written by hand, and both are edited before they go up.

What she plays, and badly

Best: the logic grids. Queens and Tango are the two games where the guides on this site are longest, because they are the two she enjoys most and has thought hardest about. A good Queens board is the best two minutes of the morning.

Worst: Smashdle's Kirby mode, which is a recognition test with no logic in it whatsoever, and which she loses to the Fire Emblem lords approximately every time — a fact the Smashdle guide admits in writing. Crossclimb's trivia is a coin flip depending on the category. Spelling Bee gets to Genius most days and Queen Bee almost never, which is the correct place to stop.

Contact

Email reaches her directly through the contact page — corrections the same day, everything else within two business days. Reports of a wrong answer are the most useful thing anyone sends; requests for games to cover are the second.