Sukie

What the editor is responsible for

Sukie decides which games HintSheet covers, sets the rules for where facts may come from, and owns the editorial policy. The site's source register lists the sources every page is allowed to rely on: the games' own pages and code, LinkedIn Help and newsroom posts, the New York Times' puzzle data, the Dle sites' published answer files, and HintSheet's own archive of past puzzles. A fact that cannot be traced to one of those does not belong on the site.

She is also the person corrections go to. Email sent through the contact page reaches her directly, and a confirmed mistake is fixed on the page it appears on, with the page's updated date changed to match.

How the daily answers are produced

Daily answers are not typed up by hand. Scripts collect each game's puzzle from its own published data shortly after it releases: the Times' puzzle feeds for Connections, Wordle and Strands, the Spelling Bee page for the Bee, each Dle site's answer file, and, for the LinkedIn games, either a HintSheet account or a public answers site. The boards, word lists and the short notes under them are generated from that data and published automatically, without an individual review of each day.

Release times differ by game. LinkedIn's eight games release at midnight Pacific Time, Wordle, Connections and Strands change at each player's local midnight, and Spelling Bee releases at 3 AM Eastern. Each game page states when HintSheet publishes its answer and whether the newest puzzle is up yet.

How the guides are written

The long-form guides, hubs and archive pages are researched and drafted with AI assistance under Sukie's direction, then checked claim by claim against the sources they cite. Statistics on the site, such as how often Connections' purple group is wordplay or how Queens boards grow through the week, are counted from HintSheet's own archive of past puzzles, and each one states the dates it covers.

When a source shows that a page is wrong, the page is corrected rather than left alone, and its updated date reflects the change. The editorial policy describes the process in more detail.

Why the pages are built the way they are

Every game has a page for today's answer, an archive of past puzzles with one click per day, and a guide to how the game works; the logic games and word games also have solvers that work on any board you type in, and Connections, Wordle and Strands have a separate hints page for people who want a nudge rather than the solution. Those choices are Sukie's, and they are why the site is organised by game rather than by date.

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 person: no location, no employer, no life story.

HintSheet is independent. It is not affiliated with LinkedIn, The New York Times or any game publisher, and game names are used only to identify the puzzles discussed.

Contact

Email reaches Sukie directly through the contact page. Reports of a wrong answer are the most useful thing anyone sends; requests for games to cover are the second.