{"id":153556,"date":"2026-03-05T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:01:22","slug":"the-1000th-connections-puzzle-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153556\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1,000th Connections Puzzle Is Almost Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Badges to Unlock With Connections 1,000<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating gameplay with in-game badges has become a rewarding new addition to New York Times Games, allowing players to commemorate their achievements and reflect on progress. When the 1,000th Connections puzzle is published on March 7, solvers can earn two special new badges.<\/p>\n<p>1,000th Puzzle Challenge Badge: Awarded to players who solve the 1,000th Connections puzzle, available on March 7, 2026 at midnight.<br \/>\n1,000 Connections Badge: Awarded to players who complete a total of 1,000 puzzles. This milestone can be reached at any time. No streak is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Badges to Unlock With Connections 1,000 Celebrating gameplay with in-game badges has become a rewarding new addition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-153556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}