If you are viewing this, you are looking for help with Strands, the New York Times‘ elegant word-search challenge.

Strands presents players with a distinctive variation of the classic word search. Words are created from adjacent letters — moving up, down, left, right, or diagonally, and they can alter direction, resulting in unique shapes and arrangements. Every letter in the grid contributes to a solution. There exists a theme that links all responses, alongside the “spangram,” a specific word or phrase that represents the day’s theme, stretching across the entire grid either horizontally or vertically.

By providing a cryptic clue and omitting a word list, Strands fashions a mind-bending game that requires more time to complete than alternatives like Wordle and Connections.

If you find yourself at an impasse or lack 10 or more minutes to tackle today’s puzzle, we have all the NYT Strands hints you require to continue at your preferred speed.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: For a fortune

The words are items that can appear in someone’s future.

Today’s NYT Strands theme clearly described

These words relate to psychics.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

The current spangram is Tarot Cards.

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