Daily themed word search
Strands
Find words connected to the day’s theme by joining adjacent letters. A special word or phrase, the spangram, connects opposite sides of the board.
- Daily access
- Free daily; paid extras
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- Daily reset
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How to play Strands
- Read the theme and connect neighbouring letters to form related words.
- Find the spangram, which expresses the theme and reaches two opposite board edges.
- Use every letter once across the completed theme words. Non-theme words can earn progress toward a hint.
Tracing paths and earning a theme-word hint
Sideways and diagonal connections
Words can bend through adjacent letters. Finding non-theme words fills the hint meter; three earn a hint that reveals the letters of a theme word.
Why try Strands?
Try it if you enjoy word searches with an extra interpretive step. The theme guides your reading of the grid, and the spangram ties the hidden answers together.