If you're reading this,Girlfriend Who is Crazy About Big Things (2025) you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.
Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on MashableBy providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.
If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferrined pace.
SEE ALSO: Wordle today: Answer, hints for May 18 SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for May 18The words are water-related.
These words are things used to travel on water.
Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.
Today's spangram is Sailboat
Mast
Rigging
Helm
Sailboat
Keel
Hull
Rudder
Stern
Tiller
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