In September, Paramount+ will premiere the sophomore seasons of several of its original series. Sylvester Stallone returns in Tulsa King (Sept. 15) as Oklahoma-based mafia capo Dwight Manfredi, while Kelsey Grammar continues in his titular role in the Frasier reboot (Sept. 19). Season two of Colin from Accounts, the Australian romantic dramedy about two singles who are brought together by a car accident, returns on September 26.

Paramount+ is also kicking off horror season with the premiere of Apartment 7A (Sept. 27), a psychological thriller intended as the prequel to Rosemary’s Baby (also streaming) that is set in 1965 New York City and stars Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, and Jim Sturgess.

Here’s everything else coming to the service in September, including the premiere of documentary We Will Dance Again (date TBA). Note that titles with an asterisk are exclusive to Paramount+ With Showtime; everything else is also available to subscribers on the ad-supported plan. Those with two asterisks are available to Paramount+ With Showtime users streaming live on CBS and to all subscribers the following day.

Paramount+ Originals and premieres coming in September 2024

Available September 1

• Parallel, streaming premiere*

Available September 13

• DORA, season two premiere

Available September 15

• Tulsa King, season two premiere

Available September 17

• Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ’80s Hair Metal

Available September 19

• Frasier, season two premiere

Available September 26

• Dreaming of a Freaking Fairy Tale, premiere

• Colin from Accounts, season two premiere

Available September 27

• Apartment 7A, premiere

Available late September

• We Will Dance Again, premiere

TV shows coming to Paramount+ in September 2024

Available September 3

• After Midnight (Season 2)**

• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Season 10)**

Available September 4

• Rubble & Crew (Season 1)

Available September 9

• The Drew Barrymore Show (Season 5)**

• The Talk (Season 16)**

Available September 16

• The Big (Seasons 1-4)

Available September 18

• Jordan Klepper Fingers the Globe: Hungary for Democracy

• Jordan Klepper Fingers the Midterms: America Unfollows Democracy

• Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Into the MAGAverse

• Survivor (Season 47)**

Available September 20

• Secret Celebrity Renovation**

Available September 21

• 48 Hours (Season 37)**

Available September 22

• 60 Minutes (Season 57)**

• Matlock (Sneak Peek)**

Available September 23

• Let’s Make A Deal (Season 16)**

• The Price Is Right (Season 53)**

Available September 26

• The Bold and the Beautiful (Season 38)**

Available September 27

• The Greatest @Home Videos**

Available September 29

• The Summit (Sneak Peek)**

Movies coming to Paramount+ in September 2024

Available September 1

• 6 Days

• 54*

• A Knight’s Tale

• A Very Brady Sequel*

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence

• All the Right Moves

• Amores Perros

• Angel Heart

• Annabelle: Creation

• Annihilation

• Approaching the Unknown

• Asylum

• Babel

• Beastly

• Beatriz at Dinner

• Below

• Beneath

• Big

• Blue Crush

• Body Cam

• Bound

• Bringing Out the Dead*

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Carriers

• Case 39

• Cesar Chavez

• Changing Lanes

• Cheech & Chong’s Still Smokin’

• Cloverfield

• Clue

• Coneheads*

• Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

• Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

• Curandero

• Cursed

• Death on the Nile

• Death Wish

• Deep Impact

• Deepstar Six

• Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

• Doctor Sleep

• Domestic Disturbance

• Don’t Worry Darling

• Doubt

• Down to You*

• Dragonslayer

• Dreamgirls

• Eagle Eye

• Ella Enchanted

• Eye for an Eye

• First Blood

• Foxcatcher

• From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

• From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter

• Get Over It*

• Get Rich or Die Tryin’

• Ghost Team One

• Ghost Town

• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

• Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers

• Halloween VIII: Resurrection

• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

• Harold and Maude*

• Heatwave

• Hecho En Mexico

• Hostage

• In a Relationship

• In Too Deep

• It Follows

• Jeanne du Barry

• Jerry Maguire

• Jojo Rabbit

• Jungleland

• Just Like Heaven

• King Kong (1976)

• Kingpin

• Labor Day*

• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider*

• Last Shoot Out*

• Like Water for Chocolate

• Little Black Book

• Love and Monsters

• Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat*

• Mimic

• Mimic 2

• Mimic 3: Sentinel

• Mommie Dearest

• Mother!

• Mr. Popper’s Penguins

• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

• My Baby’s Daddy

• My Bloody Valentine

• Nacho Libre

• Night Falls on Manhattan

• Nine Lives*

• No Country for Old Men

• Notting Hill

• Overlord

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

• Phantoms

• Piñero

• Playing with Fire

• Pretty in Pink

• Primal Fear*

• Prophecy

• Rambo III

• Rambo: First Blood Part II

• Regarding Henry*

• Reindeer Games

• Sabrina (1954)

• Scary Movie

• Scary Movie 2

• School Ties*

• Seabiscuit*

• Singularity

• Spell

• Spontaneous

• Still Waiting*

• Suspect Zero

• Switchback

• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

• Teaching Mrs. Tingle

• That Thing You Do!

• The Brothers Grimm

• The Conversation*

• The Crossing Guard

• The Crow: City of Angels

• The Crying Game*

• The Curse of La Llorona

• The Devil Inside

• The Equalizer

• The Ghost and the Darkness

• The Gift

• The Grifters

• The Haunting

• The Honeymooners

• The Hunted*

• The Internship

• The Last Exorcism Part II

• The Long Kiss Goodnight

• The Longest Yard (2005)

• The Loved Ones

• The Mexican

• The Moon & Back

• The Parallax View

• The Peacemaker*

• The Perfect Score*

• The Prophecy 3: The Ascent

• The Prophecy II

• The Prophecy: Forsaken

• The Prophecy: Uprising

• The Reckoning

• The Relic

• The Ruins

• The Tenant

• The Three Amigos (2003)

• The Two Jakes*

• The Uninvited

• The Virgin Suicides

• The Woman in Black

• Things We Lost in the Fire

• True Grit (1969)

• Truth

• Twisted

• Unfaithful

• Urban Cowboy

• Waiting…*

• Witchboard II: The Devil’s Doorway

Available September 15

• Premonition

Available September 18

• Office Race

• The Preppie Connection

Available September 25

• Born to Be Blue

• Deadlock

If you’re looking for the Wordle answer for August 21, 2024 read on. We’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Today’s puzzle is medium difficult; I got it in four. Beware, there are spoilers below for August 21, Wordle #1,159! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today’s Wordle game.

How to play Wordle

Wordle lives here on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time.

Start by guessing a five-letter word. The letters of the word will turn green if they’re correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn’t in the day’s secret word at all. For more, check out our guide to playing Wordle here, and my strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers.)

Ready for the hints? Let’s go!

Does today’s Wordle have any unusual letters?

We’ll define common letters as those that appear in the old typesetters’ phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU. (Memorize this! Pronounce it “Edwin Shirdloo,” like a name, and pretend he’s a friend of yours.)

There are three common letters from our mnemonic today. The other two are also pretty common.

Can you give me a hint for today’s Wordle?

Add this to your garden beds.

Does today’s Wordle have any double or repeated letters?

There are no repeated letters today. 

How many vowels are in today’s Wordle?

There is one vowel.

What letter does today’s Wordle start with?

Today’s word starts with M. 

What letter does today’s Wordle end with?

Today’s word ends with H. 

What is the solution to today’s Wordle?

Ready? Today’s word is MULCH.

How I solved today’s Wordle

I started with RAISE and TOUCH then guessed LUMEN to eliminate possible relatively common consonants. This left MULCH as the solution.

Wordle 1,159 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩
🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle was harder. The hint was “this makes you late” and the answer contained four common letters and one uncommon letter.

The answer to yesterday’s Wordle was DELAY.

A primer on Wordle basics

The idea of Wordle is to guess the day’s secret word. When you first open the Wordle game, you’ll see an empty grid of letters. It’s up to you to make the first move: type in any five-letter word. 

Now, you can use the colors that are revealed to get clues about the word: Green means you correctly guessed a letter, and it’s in the correct position. (For example, if you guess PARTY, and the word is actually PURSE, the P and R will be green.)

• Yellow means the letter is somewhere in the word, but not in the position you guessed it. (For example, if you guessed PARTY, but the word is actually ROAST, the R, A and T will all be yellow.)

• Gray means the letter is not in the solution word at all. (If you guessed PARTY and everything is gray, then the solution cannot be PURSE or ROAST.)

With all that in mind, guess another word, and then another, trying to land on the correct word before you run out of chances. You get six guesses, and then it’s game over.

The best starter words for Wordle

What should you play for that first guess? The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, that’s still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isn’t a single “best” starting word, but the New York Times’s Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these:

• CRANE

• TRACE

• SLANT

• CRATE

• CARTE

Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that you’ll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these:

• SALET

• REAST

• TRACE

• CRATE

• SLATE

Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that it’s better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out.

How to win at Wordle

We have a few guides to Wordle strategy, which you might like to read over if you’re a serious student of the game. This one covers how to use consonants to your advantage, while this one focuses on a strategy that uses the most common letters. In this advanced guide, we detail a three-pronged approach for fishing for hints while maximizing your chances of winning quickly.

The biggest thing that separates Wordle winners from Wordle losers is that winners use their guesses to gather information about what letters are in the word. If you know that the word must end in -OUND, don’t waste four guesses on MOUND, ROUND, SOUND, and HOUND; combine those consonants and guess MARSH. If the H lights up in yellow, you know the solution.

One more note on strategy: the original Wordle used a list of about 2,300 solution words, but after the game was bought by the NYT, the game now has an editor who hand-picks the solutions. Sometimes they are slightly tricky words that wouldn’t have made the original list, and sometimes they are topical. For example, FEAST was the solution one Thanksgiving. So keep in mind that there may be a theme.

Wordle alternatives

If you can’t get enough of five-letter guessing games and their kin, the best Wordle alternatives, ranked by difficulty, include:

• Wheeldle, which lets you play one puzzle after another

• Dordle and Quordle, which ask you to play two (Dordle) or four (Quordle) puzzles at the same time, with the same guesses. There is also Octordle, with eight puzzles, and Sedecordle, with 16.

• Waffle, which shows you several five-letter words, scrambled in a grid; you play by swapping the letters around until you solve.

• Absurdle, which changes the solution after each guess, but needs to stay consistent with its previous feedback. You have to strategically back it into a corner until there is only one possible word left; then you guess it, and win.

• Squabble, in which you play Wordle against other people with a timer running. You take damage if you spend too much time between guesses; winner is the last one standing.

• Antiwordle, in which you are trying not to guess the day’s solution. You’re required to reuse any letters that you (oops) guessed correctly, so the longer it takes you, the better you are at the game.

If you spend a lot of time on CleanTok or looking at beautiful, well-organized homes on social media, you’re bound to run across some trends, some of which make more sense than others. Knolling is like that: The term refers to a way of organizing what you’ve organized, which sounds like overkill, but it makes sense once you get into it.

What is knolling?

This word and idea comes from a sculptor named Andrew Kromelow who, in the 1980s, named it after the studio where he was working and organizing tools for another artist. In arranging things, whether they’re tools like Kromelow used or not, you should consider their placement, ideally putting them in a visually appealing pattern, like a grid.

This works well because when you’re organizing, you should already be sorting your items into categories and placing them into designated containers; those are the basic rules of the Organizational Triangle. Knolling, or turning those designated spots into spaces that are easy to access, is the logical next step.

How to start knolling

If your items aren’t organized and categorized into drawers, shelves, and containers already, do that first. You can use any decluttering and organizing method you want, but your goal should be to get rid of things you don’t use and find space for the things you do use and need.

From there, consider each designated space. In drawers, you can use dividers to make this even easier, but in general, you want to lay everything out flat, not stacked within its container, and arrange it in a way that’s appealing to your eye. For instance, a drawer full of writing utensils can get cluttered and ugly, but arranging all the pens pointing up and down, then establishing a section next to them for pencils to lay the opposite way will create visual appeal while making sure everything in there is visible and accessible. If something doesn’t fit into the grid or pattern you’re creating, consider getting rid of it. This process helps you streamline your stuff, holding onto only what you need and making sure you can always reach and grab it when you need it. If everything is arranged in a nice pattern, you’ll also notice when something is missing and be reminded to put it back exactly where it goes, maintaining the organization of your home even more.

If you’re not a super visual person, just start by laying out your bigger items with plenty of space around them. Then, add in your smaller ones, keeping similar items grouped together in the spaces you created and alternating their angles so you end up with perpendicular lines between categories, making it clear what and where everything is. Look to videos like this for inspo:

The reason this is so big on TikTok is obvious: When you’re done creating your patterns, it just looks nice. That’s a recipe for views and likes on social media, so you can see why creators are into it. For your own purposes, even if you’re organizing for an audience of one, pretend you’re doing a “before and after” post. I recommend doing that with organizing in general, since taking a picture of a cluttered mess and then another of your decluttered space is a helpful motivational tool. While you knoll, creating your pattern of angled, perpendicular, spaced-out items, imagine how it will all look as an “after” shot. Would it be appealing enough to share? The goal is to make every container and storage space inviting, not cluttered, so you actually use them and strive to keep them maintained. Imagine you’re going to post your final results straight to CleanTok, then work toward making something share-worthy, even if it’s just for yourself.

Most of us keep our phones on silent these days, but should we? I miss when getting a phone call was fun, and not a sign some spammer was looking to steal our information. If you’re feeling particularly brave, there’s a good reason to flip your Pixel off of silent: It’s getting some new ringtones.

As 9to5Google explains, Google is including these new ringtones, alert tones, and alarms with the Pixel 9 series. The company calls the collection “Sound Matters,” which is made up of a variety of bird sounds. Google says they recorded different birds in remote areas of both Botswana and Zimbabwe in 2023, specifically during Southern Africa’s rainy season, working with an award-winning wildlife recordist for the collection.

While Sound Matters initially appeared on Pixel 9 devices, they’re coming to other Pixels as well. According to Android Authority, Pixel 4 and newer will be getting these tones this week, including six ringtones, six alarm sounds, and four alert tones.

How to get Google’s new ringtones for Pixel

Assuming you have a Pixel 4 or newer, make sure the Sounds app is updated to version 3.1 or newer. This is the OS version Google is rolling out Sound Matters to. From here, go to your phone’s setting, then Sound & vibration. You can access Sound Matters from ringtones, your default notification sound, or default alarm sound, so choose any of these options to access it.

There are six new ringtones:

• Cape Turtle Dove at Dawn

• Botswana Bushveld at Dawn

• Limpopo Riverbed at Dawn

• Zimbabwe Savannah at Dawn

• Arrow-Marked Babbler at Dawn

• Water Thick-Knee at Dawn

There are also six new Alarms:

• Limpopo Savannah at Dawn

• Botswana Bushveld at Dawn

• Zimbabwe Savannah at Dawn

• Limpopo River at Dawn

• Limpopo Riverbed at Dawn

• Zimbabwe Hills at Dawn

Finally, there are four new Alert tones:

• Meyer’s Parrot at Dawn

• Limpopo Riverbed at Dawn

• Crested Francolin at Dawn

• African Fish Eagle at Dawn

While the individual sounds aren’t available to preview online, Google has uploaded an hour-long recording featuring sounds from the “Dawn Chorus,” as the company calls it, to YouTube. There’s also a “making of” video if you’re interested in learning more about the company’s process.

When you think of a wok, you might imagine a large, dark bowl engulfed in flames—and while that’s not wrong by any means, it’s far from a complete picture of this efficient cookware. Woks aren’t used widely in Western cuisine, but they’re highly versatile, with many styles and shapes to fit your cooking style. Here are some factors to consider as you set out to buy a wok of your own.

Traditional round vs. flat bottom woks

Traditional woks. These have a round bottom and sloped sides that flare out dramatically. The curved bottom and flared sides are key for tossing, catching, and tumbling ingredients, and make it a flexible tool for boiling soups, stir frying, braising, steaming, or deep frying. 

The tapered bowl-shaped bottom is the hottest part and also creates a small area for liquids to concentrate. As you cook, ingredients will pass through this area and get coated in sauce or fat before they toss up again. Alternatively, this area is where water bubbles away while a steamer basket hovers above. The sloped sides are a bit cooler and you can use them to hold food off to the side while you use the hot center to add new ingredients.

The round-bottomed wok does need a bit of help though. The pan will roll off to one side if you let go of the handle, so this type of wok needs to be used in tandem with a wok ring. The wok ring is a metal support that will stabilize the wok over the heat source while still allowing you to turn it freely. This type of wok is best if you plan to cook over an open flame outside, or over a gas burning stove inside. It’s also the best pan for meals that cook quickly, like stir fries, because the uninterrupted curved shape allows for constant motion. You can toss and shovel the ingredients quickly over the high heat.

Flat bottomed woks. These still have wide-angled sides and a tapered bottom, but instead of a continuous curve, the bottom flattens into a five- or six-inch diameter circle. (Avoid wok pans that have a flat bottom any wider than that.) This shape gives you the benefit of being able to fling ingredients off the sides and also set the wok flat on the stove so you can tend to other things. You do lose a bit of the tossing and scooping ease that a curved bottom gives you, but that might make no difference to you depending on what you’re cooking.

This type of wok can be used on any stove top but it’s a must for flat, electric or induction stove tops since it needs to make direct contact with the heat source to work. It’s also a good choice if you steam a lot of food—just make sure to buy one with a tight-fitting lid. 

Carbon steel, stainless, cast iron, and nonstick woks

There are a few competing materials out there, specifically carbon steel, stainless steel, nonstick, and cast iron. One of the unique flavors you can get from wok cooking is that charred, smoky-scorch called wok hei. It’s a combination of caramelized ingredients tinged with smoking oil. It’s delicious, and you can achieve this with high heat and the right wok material. 

Carbon steel woks tick all the boxes for a useful wok: lightweight, thin, durable, and heat responsive. Carbon steel is by and large the most favored among chefs and the best part is they’re cheap, about $50 or less. The downside is that this type of wok does require seasoning before using. (To do that, follow the manufacturer’s instructions, or you can check out this video.) While you might get some sticking in the beginning, it only gets better from there.

Nonstick woks, unfortunately, are not conducive to wok hei, or even quick browning for that matter. Beyond that, nonstick coatings can degrade at high temperatures which can result in fumes, or nonstick coatings flaking off into your food. It’s not unusual for woks to reach temperatures of about 750°F, and the surface material of nonsticks can degrade at temperatures exceeding 500°F. However, the nonstick wok is great for beginners learning to get familiar with the particular shape of a wok, deep frying, and gentler cooking methods like braising or steaming.

Cast iron is an excellent material for high temperatures, has high heat retention, and even heat distribution. It is, however, heavy as hell, and with stir frying, heat retention isn’t always what you want. Some cast iron woks are thinner to offset the downsides but they can be brittle as a trade-off. If you don’t plan on using a wok for tossing and tumbling ingredients, cast iron can be a good option. 

Stainless steel woks are probably the most deeply hated of the woks, industry-wide. (At least nonstick has a place among beginner cooks.) The trouble is that wok-style cooking doesn’t vibe with stainless’ best qualities. Stainless steel takes a while to heat up, meats sear best on it when left alone, and the metal is heavy. Wok-style cooking requires quick heat adjustments, a hot center and cooler edges, a material where proteins can tumble and fry in a touch-and-go manner, and something light enough to lift and move. Stainless steel is a great material for cookware—just not woks.

Wok handle styles

The handles you choose are primarily decided by your cooking style and what you imagine you’ll be cooking in your wok. There are usually three handle varieties or combinations: one long handle, one long handle and one short on the opposite side, or two short handles on opposing sides. 

Buy a wok with a long handle if you plan on stir frying. This kind of handle gives you a longer lever for bigger moves. It’s best for shaking and tossing ingredients and cooking over high heat or flames, so you can have a bit more distance between you and the inferno. 

Short handles give you a better grip for lifting and pouring. If you’re going to be braising, steaming, or deep frying, then you might opt for the short handles. If you’re not sure yet, then I suggest buying the kind with one long handle and one short handle to give yourself options.

There are a lot of different cleaning and organizing methods out there. You have to try a few before you figure out what works best for you, but they all have some things in common. Typically, committing to a cleaning schedule and working in small bursts is recommended, but what if you tried something entirely different? But if sticking to a cleaning schedule doesn’t work for you, try “completing the cycle,” which asks you to think of cleaning as part of the process of the task that created the mess in the first place.

What is completing the cycle?

This cleaning framework has been around the housekeeping blogosphere for a few years and stands in stark contrast to the way we usually think of cleaning. Normally, I say you should dedicate a small chunk of each day to tidying up, keeping a consistent schedule. When you do that, you pick up and organize whatever is out of place at that time during the day. With completing the cycle, nothing will be out of place because you reframe how you see your daily tasks. Think of everything you do as a cycle, with cleaning up afterward being the final step.

How to start completing the cycle

As an example of how this works, think about your morning commute or the time you spend getting ready for work. Maybe you brush your teeth and shower, then make breakfast or grab a coffee on the way to the office. Getting to the office or sitting down to start working might seem like the final step in that cycle, but you could start imagining the post-commute cleaning as the final step. In some ways, you probably already do this. If you swing by Starbucks on the way to work, you don’t hold on to the cup when you’re done. You throw it away. Finishing the coffee isn’t completing the cycle of getting the coffee, but throwing away the cup is. So, the end of your work routine actually comes after work finishes up, when you put away your commuter bag, put your clothes in the hamper, and rinse out your lunch box before putting it in the cabinet.

With the standard method of cleaning, you’d do all of that during the cleaning time you blocked out in your schedule, but by completing each cycle with a clean-up of whatever you were doing, you make it so you don’t have to do that. The cycle of eating dinner doesn’t end when you’ve eaten, but when you put away the plates. The cycle of working out doesn’t end when you’re done lifting, but when you wipe down your equipment and put it all back. The cycle of game night with your family doesn’t end when someone is declared a winner and the kids fall asleep, but when you put away the board and wash the popcorn bowl.

If designating a set time for cleaning hasn’t worked for you or you just want to try something new, this could be the way. Cleaning everything in real time, as you finish with it, prevents messes from forming in the first place and negates the need for scheduled cleans altogether. Before you start, make sure that you’re adhering to an organizational method already and, ideally, everything you own has a designated place for storage, so it’s easy to put everything back where it belongs right away. Some things, like unloading the dishwasher or putting away laundry, may still require some scheduling, since you can’t do those when you’re done with your dishes or clothes, but overall, this technique will cut down on how much time you spend cleaning—and how much time you spend living in a cluttered space in between.