With its roots in the traditional word search, Strands offers some reward for finding words, even if it's not one of the target theme words (or has nothing to do with the theme at all.) ...

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game ... There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram ...

The Strands board is a 6x8 grid of letters, and it looks like a small word search. You select words either ... It would be, if not for the theme and the hints, and the fact that mistakes don ...