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Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings in the IPL for free from anywhere in the world.

TL;DR: Watch Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings in the IPL for free on JioCinema. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The 2024 IPL season is in full swing, and as we approach the fourth week of matches, who’s next in line?

Cricket enthusiasts will be eagerly awaiting the next fixture as the Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings will soon take to the pitch. Fans can expect to see players such as Shreyas Iyer and Shikhar Dhawan in the lineup for the 42nd match of the season.

Hooked on the action? Don’t worry, you can watch all the IPL games including Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings for free from anywhere in the world. Keep reading to find out how.

When is Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings?

Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings starts at 3 p.m. BST on April 26. This fixture will be played at the Eden Gardens cricket stadium in Kolkata, India.

How to watch Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings for free

JioCinema is giving you the chance to live stream every IPL cricket match this season in 4K resolution on its app, for free.

JioCinema is geo-restricted to India, but by using a VPN, you can bypass this geo-restriction. VPNs can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in India, meaning you can access JioCinema from anywhere in the world.

Unblock JioCinema to stream the IPL 2024 by following these simple steps:

Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

Open up the app and connect to a server in India

Visit JioCinema (you will need an Indian phone number to subscribe)

Watch Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Punjab Kings for free from anywhere in the world

Most of the best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do offer free trials or money-back guarantees. By utilizing these offers, you can watch IPL live streams without parting with your cash. This isn’t a long-term solution, but it does mean you can watch your favorite IPL fixtures for free.

What is the best VPN for JioCinema?

ExpressVPN is the best service for unblocking JioCinema, for a number of reasons:

Servers in 105 countries including India

Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

Fast connection speeds

Up to eight simultaneous connections

30-day money-back guarantee

A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for £82.82 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee.

Stream the IPL for free with ExpressVPN.

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Here’s the answer for “Wordle” #1042 on April 26, as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer.

If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for April 26’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Wordle.

What’s the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles used to be available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, it has since been taken down, with the website’s creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn’t any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle‘s Hard Mode if you’re after more of a challenge, though.

Here’s a subtle hint for today’s Wordle answer:

Self-obsessed.

Does today’s Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no letters that appear twice.

Today’s Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with…

Today’s Wordle starts with the letter V.

The Wordle answer today is…

Get your last guesses in now, because it’s your final chance to solve today’s Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to Wordle #1042 is…

VAPID.

Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Reporting by Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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Connections is a New York Times word game that’s all about finding the “common threads between words.” How to solve the puzzle.

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for April 26’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

What is Connections?

The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer. If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

Here’s a hint for today’s Connections categories

Want a hit about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

Yellow: Stuffy Downton Abbey vibes

Green: Nautre’s skin toner

Blue: Heart to heart

Purple: Words that are also numbers

Here are today’s Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:

Yellow: Refined Sensibility

Green: Catch Some Rays

Blue: Emotionally Sway

Purple: Numbers with First Letters Replaced by “S”

Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to Connections #320 is…

What is the answer to Connections today

Refined Sensibility: ELEGANCE, GRACE, STYLE, TASTE

Catch Some Rays: BAKE, BASK, SUN, TAN

Emotionally Sway: AFFECT, IMPACT, MOVE, TOUCH

Numbers with First Letters Replaced by “S”: SEN, SIGHT, SINE, SOUR

Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Is this not the Connections game you were looking for? Here are the hints and answers to yesterday’s Connections.

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A review for Aggro Crab’s Another Crab’s Treasure for the PS5

My experience with Another Crab’s Treasure can be summed up with the following observation: after 20 hours adventuring the ocean floor, the game crashed during the final cutscene.

A refreshing take on the soulslike genre, Another Crab’s Treasure is the latest game from Seattle-based developer Aggro Crab, makers of other indie hits Going Under and Subway Midnight. And while the game markets itself heavily as an attempt to be the cute soulslike, at its core it’s an action-platformer with some very dark and existential themes. At times really fun and sometimes really frustrating, Another Crab’s Treasure is a memorable entry-level souls-like that is, unfortunately, plagued with performance issues.

Another Crab’s Treasure is a cute — but bleak — undersea journey

Set under the sea, the game’s hero is Kril, a hermit crab who spent most of his life topside until one day when his shell gets repoed by a loan shark. Kril’s adventure takes him into the ocean, wearing trash as protection, on a quest to get his shell back. During this mission, he discovers that the sea below him is polluted by trash and is being slowly corrupted by its gunk — meaning whether he likes it or not, he might be the only one who can save it.

Unlike some games I’ve reviewed like Harold Halibut, which use mild critiques of late-stage capitalism as set dressing for their stories, Another Crab’s Treasure is a brutal satire that isn’t afraid to feed players a message loud and clear: how we live truly fucking sucks. Throughout the story, Kril quickly learns the undersea society he’s been avoiding lives and breathes the trash and pollution his fellow surface-dwellers produce. The game’s hub city, New Carcinia, runs on trash, with all goods and services using microplastics as its currency.

In the city, you’ll quickly notice the clear wealth disparity between the citizens in the upper and lower levels. In the Upper Crust, the roads are CVS receipts, with houses made from coral and expensive bottles of whiskey. Down below, there’s a stark lack of any type of road along with the building built from wonky boxes of cardboard. Even though it’s all junk, talking with city-goers will make it obvious that to them, there’s a difference between good trash and bad trash.

It’s hard to take a lot of Upper Crusters seriously when they flex their clothing to you — made from silica gel packets and discarded orange peels — whereas the lower city inhabitants wear literal garbage bags as dresses. It’s all one big, unified trash concept, and it’s a sort of subtle, but at times very explicit, form of environmental storytelling that is built into the details.

The creatures that inhabit New Carcinia and the ocean around them are memorable if a bit one note. Firth is a blue hermit crab who is an obvious riff on annoying libertarian tech bros; Neema is a motherly, down-to-earth crab who runs the dive bar with her two daughters in the poor part of town and lives just one day at a time; Chitan is a noble lobster knight who seeks for the power to save the ocean.

Aggro Crab’s cute soulslike is unabashedly a critique of how man-made climate change and pollution are destroying our planet. It’s refreshing to see a developer take an actual stand for an issue rather than just dance around it hoping not to make anyone upset. Despite all the charm and color, Another Crab’s Treasure grapples with a form of existential dread that’s just as gloomy as any other soulslike without being a grimdark medieval European fantasy.

Another Crab’s Treasure is a Soulslike at its core

Like many other genre imitators, Another Crab’s Treasure‘s combat is of the dodging, rolling, and slashing variety. However, it’s not as deep as Dark Souls or Lies of P, instead, it’s sort of like Sekiro and Fallen Order — fairly static combat that meets you at your level and asks you to master what’s been handed to you. What makes Crab’s Treasure‘s combat stand out is the ability to, at any time, swap between shells filled to the brim with unique magical abilities called “umami.”

There is a heavy emphasis on shells in combat, as they serve as both your armor and access to your umami abilities. Just like everything else in the ocean, these shells are everyday human junk that’s been thrown out — from tennis balls, springs, soda cans, to even boxing gloves. Most shells have their own unique abilities that riff off their common use by humans. Soda cans can launch a magical blast of fizz; wearing fuses will shield your armor in electricity that will shock opponents that attack you; and wearing a shot glass or salt shaker can turn you into a sharp ball of glass.

Along with your “umami” abilities, you can attach stowaways to your shell. These are pieces of junk and small animals that give you enhanced abilities in combat. Examples include a sea star that grants you extra health, or a rubber band that makes you immune to electric attacks.

The combat is never that hard compared to Dark Souls, but it’s not without its challenges. After reaching the second or third major area of the game there’s a noticeable lack of enemy variety. You’ll get different enemies to fight, but they mostly all exist within the same archetypes — except now they do more damage. Additionally, there is a deliberateness to the combat meant to punish button mashers. This includes input lag and a lack of I-frames when dodging. But it’s not always clear where intentional challenge ends, and performance issues (I’ll get to those in a minute) begin. I can’t tell, for instance, if the game doesn’t recognize that I’m trying to heal myself, or if I’m timing the command wrong or something.

As if to try and be fair to the player in light of the added challenges, certain gameplay elements make things much easier too. Enemies telegraph their moves to an annoying extent. And if somehow combat is still giving you trouble, the game has accessibility features that can negate damage, add extra I-frames, or even give you a gun that insta-kills enemies (that is not a joke, I swear to God).

At its heart though, Another Crab’s Treasure feels like a spiritual incarnation of classic platformers like Jak and Daxter, as there is a level of verticality you will not see in any other soulslike. As you adventure around, you can climb on fallen nets, access high areas using a fishing hook, and make long gaps by pressing and holding X, which will enable you to float through the water. It’s an invigorating mechanic for a souls-like, even though at times it’s way too frustrating – especially if, like me, you have fat fingers and while you’re floating towards a gap you accidentally press the dodge button and now you’ve air-rolled into the abyss below.

Another Crab’s Treasure is buggy

As much as I love the game’s story and characters, it’s buggy. The review copy given to me by Aggro Crab and Popagenda was played on PlayStation 5, which has had performance issues of late with games like Dragon’s Dogma 2. There were multiple instances where the game would crash, mostly from loading up new areas within the map.

During combat, Kril would mysteriously launch into the air after doing — or being hit by — certain moves. Other times had Kril getting stuck in the world’s geometry, to the point where I had to go into the menu and use the “die instantly” option so I could reset. There was an instance in grappling over a lake of gunk that caused the game to trigger the falling death animation because Kril’s hitbox would barely glide over the gunk.

Even more annoying, when nearing the end, I inadvertently warped into the final area of the game after glitching through the floor.

Some games have taken advantage of the PS5’s SSD to do things like hide their loading screens via transitional gameplay mechanics, such as taking an elevator, or by making the character navigate through a narrow crevice a-la Bloodborne or God of War. While Another Crab’s Treasure attempts this, it’s quite obvious that a cutscene or new area is being booted up because the game will freeze and stutter until it’s loaded.

Although finding shortcuts is a big component of the genre, soulslikes have long stretches of gameplay in-between areas where you can save your progress — so imagine the feeling that all your hard work can be wiped at any moment because the game often crashes trying to load up a new area. And as I said at the top of the review, during the game’s final cutscene, it crashed — which forced me to fight the final boss again just so I could watch the last half of the ending.

It’s an added layer of challenge that doesn’t add any fun, and instead sort of feels like a hostage situation.

Is Another Crab’s Treasure worth it?

For just under $30, Another Crab’s Treasure is an excellent, if a bit basic, soulslike for anyone looking to get into the genre. From its beautiful environments to its cast of charming, cute characters, the game’s story is clever, witty, and a biting reminder that we live in community with each other and not for ourselves.

However, I’d hesitate to recommend this straight away unless the game gets a hearty day-one patch to shore up its myriad performance issues on PS5. Outside of those complaints, Aggro Crab’s cute soulslike is, so far, one of the best games I’ve played this year.

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Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist discuss the thematic significance of the traveling ‘I Told Ya’ shirt in ‘Challengers’

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist discuss the thematic significance of the traveling ‘I Told Ya’ shirt in Challengers.

Challengers opens in theaters April 26. 

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The trailer for “Cora Bora”, a cringe comedy directed by Hannah Pearl Utt and starring online comic Megan Stalter, has dropped.

Online-comic-turned-Hacks-star Megan Stalter takes the lead in the trailer for Cora Bora, a comedy about a budding musician returning home to try and win back her girlfriend.

“Cora Bora proves a sensational cringe comedy, spiked with wicked humor, skin-crawling awkward scenarios, and an ardent — if wounded — heart,” wrote Mashable’s Kristy Puchko in her review. “Deftly dancing from brash jokes to tender dialogue, Stalter reveals a riveting range and stirring screen presence. Simply put, it’s easy to fall for Cora Bora.“

Sounds like one to keep an eye out for.

Cora Bora is coming soon to theaters.

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Watch the trailer for “Black Twitter: A People’s History”, Hulu’s three-part series based on the articles by Wired’s Jason Parham.

Based on the three-part article series written by Wired‘s Jason Parham and directed by Prentice Penny (Insecure), Black Twitter: A People’s History chronicles the rise of one of the most influential, important spaces on the internet, through the major moments, key voices, and of course, the memes. And you can watch the new trailer above.

“Black Twitter is the beating heart of Twitter overall,” wrote Mashable’s Chance Townsend and Tim Marcin. “If you have a favorite meme, joke, or even way to use Twitter, it most likely started on Black Twitter. There is no Twitter — at least not the version we know — without Black Twitter.”

The three-part Hulu series features a colossal amount of interviews, featuring Roxane Gay, W. Kamau Bell, Ira Madison III, Jemele Hill, Kid Fury, Dr. André Brock, Rembert Browne, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Raquel Willis, Dr. Meredith Clark, Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins, TJ Adeshola, Shamika Klassen, Amanda Seales, Denver Sean, Wesley Lowery, April Reign, Sam Jay, Brad Jenkins, God-is Rivera, Ashley Weatherspoon, Van Lathan, Jamilah Lemieux, Baratunde Thurston, J Wortham, Judnick Mayard, and Parham.

Notably, the response to Hulu’s first trailer was mixed on Black Twitter itself.

How to watch: Black Twitter: A People’s History premieres May 9 on Hulu.

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Answers to each clue for the April 25, 2024 edition of NYT’s The Mini crossword puzzle.

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player’s flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

Here are the clues and answers to NYT’s The Mini for Thursday, April 25, 2024:

Across

Move like a pendulum

The answer is swing.

Having an established key, musically

The answer is tonal.

Up and fully caffeinated, say

The answer is awake.

Tablecloth material

The answer is linen.

English city in West Yorkshire

The answer is Leeds.

Down

Try to buy some time

The answer is stall.

Exclamation that rhymes with “Maui”

The answer is wowie.

Totally wackadoodle

The answer is inall.

In the buff

The answer is naked.

Mountain valleys

The answer is glens.

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The trailer for Baltasar Kormàkur’s “Touch”, a drama about a dying man trying to solve a 50-year-old mystery, has dropped on YouTube.

Two timelines 50 years apart play out in the trailer for Touch, Baltasar Kormàkur’s drama about a terminally ill widower Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) trying to learn what happened to the woman he fell in love with as a young man.

From the looks of the trailer this one’s going to pack a heavy punch of nostalgia, with the older man Kristófer following in the footsteps of his younger self (Palmi Kormákur) in an effort to solve a mystery while he still can. Based on the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Touch also stars Kôki, Masahiro Motoki, and Yôko Narahashi.

How to watch: Touch is coming to theaters on July 12.

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A breakdown of the four post-credits scenes in “Conan O’Brien Must Go” on Max.

With four episodes checking in at around the 40 minute mark, Conan O’Brien Must Go is the kind of show you just want more of.

But while we don’t know if the comedy travel show, which sees the host surprising fans in Norway, Argentina, Thailand, and Ireland, will be back for a second season, we can at least make the most of what we do have — and that includes four silly post-credits scenes you may have missed on first viewing.

From a belting Irish song to an impressive animation, here are the post-credits scenes that take place at the end of each of O’Brien’s different adventures.

Norway

This is definitely the sweetest of the post-credits scenes. Earlier in the Norway episode O’Brien heads to the archipelago of Lofoten to meet up with a fan, a fish farmer called Kai who takes him out on his boat. Right at the end of the episode Kai makes a reappearance, this time in a video he’s filmed of himself on his phone.

“Hey Conan, it’s me Kai here,” he says. “I don’t know if you remember the drink we had in the bar? There was a girl there which I have known for a while. Conan gave me a pat on the shoulder and told me to go for it — and I did. So we’re living together now, and we’re expecting our first baby – a little girl, now, in February. Things are going really great. Thank you for your visit.”

Adorable!

Argentina

At the start of the episode O’Brien visits an artist called Sebastian in the city of Buenos Aires, and makes a very specific request: Can Sebastian paint a portrait of the host with his arms around footballer Lionel Messi on one side, Pope Francis on the other, then turn the whole thing into a giant mural? Sebastian is happy to oblige, and the post-credits scene contains a timelapse of said mural being put together.

Thailand

O’Brien visits Big Brain Studio in Bangkok during the Thailand episode, where he views the start of an animation commemorating his visit. O’Brien then immediately dictates some scenes he wants added to the cartoon. “Can we include a segment where I’m not answering texts from my wife?” asks O’Brien. “Maybe a segment where I’m having way too much white wine at night in the hotel bar, and then maybe my producer pulling me away from the bar.”

The final post-credits scene contains the full animation, complete with these scenes and more.

Ireland

Midway through the Ireland episode O’Brien joins singing trio The Irish Tenors for a rendition of “Danny Boy”. In the episode’s post-credits scene he’s back with them, this time performing in a packed Irish pub to rapturous applause from the audience.

How to watch: Conan O’Brien Must Go is streaming now on Max.

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