TUESDAY PUZZLE — If not for its appearance in a crossword puzzle, any theme might be dismissed as mere happenstance. Three or ...

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The Strands puzzle, featured on the NYT Games platform, refreshes every 24 hours and presents players with a themed word search challenge. What makes it stand out is the inclusion of a “spangram” — a ...

New York Times introduced Strands, its latest puzzle game. It challenges players to find themed words on a grid. A special word called Spangram stretches across the board. The theme for June 02 ...

search, game playing, and autonomous vehicles. In this case, it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns from a year’s worth of e-mails sent from Gmail.com.

Angela Rodell is a member of the group and unsuccessfully ran for mayor last fall’s election. She estimates each petition needs at least a few hundred more signatures to meet the threshold.

Drag your mouse to connect letters horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Find the central theme word or Spangram that will help you better understand the Strands theme. In addition to the Spangram, ...

For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

And if you find a word like WILL, see if other letters are close enough to help you make SILL, or BILL. #2: Once you get one theme word, look at the puzzle to see if you can spot other related words.

With the Atlantic hurricane season in mind, can you solve this week’s word search? Don’t forget if you need help there’s an “Assist” dropdown near the top right of the puzzle.