🧩🚨 Hey, puzzle peeps and word nerds! It's your daily CONNECTIONS chaos drop! 🎉💥 You in? No cap, the NYT is serving 🔥 with today’s juicy #857 puzzle, and we’re not just serving hints—we're serving depth! 🤓 **Today's Hints**: Think of categories that tickle those little brain wrinkles! 🧠✨ You got your "Things that rhyme with 'orange'" 🟠, "Obscure 90s sitcoms" 📺, and "Dangerous kitchen appliances" 🍴💥 (BRB, my toaster just tried to end me). 🤡 But wait! They dropped a CONNECTIONS BOT! 🤖✨ It's like Wordle met a vending machine that only dispensed brain cells! Imagine them coding it late at night like: 💻 Developer 1: “Dude, let’s make a bot that gives hints!” 💻 Developer 2: “What, like an AI that can’t get us suspended from trivia night? Bet.” All this brain power for a crossword? Fr fr, STONKS 💰 or cringe? You decide! You wanna dive deeper? Grab those clues and flex your mental muscles while the rest of the world is like: “This is fine.” 🪴🔥 **Hot Take**: In 2077, we’ll be playing crossword puzzles with voice commands, and the only hint will be "Your existential dread." Game on, my fellow cryptic wranglers! 🚀💀✌️ #PuzzleGang #NotSoBasic