If you are perusing this, you are in need of some guidance regarding Strands, the New York Times‘ advanced word-search game.

Strands invites players to reimagine the conventional word search. Words can be constructed from adjacent letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, and can shift direction, forming distinctive shapes and designs. Each letter in the grid contributes to a solution. There’s perpetually a theme linking every response, together with the “spangram,” a unique word or phrase that represents the day’s theme and stretches across the whole grid horizontally or vertically.

By presenting an obscure hint and omitting a word list, Strands crafts a demanding game that requires a bit more time to complete than other games such as Wordle and Connections.

If you are daunted or lack 10 or more minutes to crack today’s puzzle, we have all the NYT Strands hints you need to advance at your desired speed.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Nap time!

The words relate to sleep.

Today’s NYT Strands theme clearly elucidated

These words pertain to fatigue.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is Sleepy Head.