Happy Birthday, NYT Strands, and How About That Inside Joke Puzzle Today?

Happy birthday to Strands! The New York Times Stands game, which is kind of like a word-find where you're not given the list of words to find, celebrated its 365th puzzle on Monday and marked its full one-year anniversary with a Strands-themed puzzle on Tuesday. (Spoilers ahead, so look away if you haven't solved today's puzzle yet.) Read more: Daily puzzle answers for Strands, Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and the Mini Crossword The puzzle proudly touts "It's our game-iversary" as the puzzle theme, but players might be surprised when they discover that the theme doesn't include words like "puzzle" or "words" or "celebrate" or "anniversary." Instead, the answers, meaning the words a player has to find, are all synonyms for the word Strands. Read more: Rules explained, plus tips for the daily NYT Strands puzzle Players will need to find the words CURL, WISP, STRING, RIBBON, THREAD, TENDRIL and FILAMENT, plus the spangram--a word that spans from one side of the puz ... Read full article.