Strands: The New Word Game from The New York Times

0:00On May 3rd, the New York Times drops strands, a fresh word game that's climbing the ranks right up there with wordal and connections. It's a daily puzzle on their site, an app, where you hunt theme words on a grid and snag a special spangram that ties it all together. You drag or tap letters to form words. Theme ones light up blue and fill the board without overlapping. The spangram goes yellow, stretches edge to edge, often describing the theme, and you earn hints by spotting extra words every three. Players are hooked, calling it the perfect quick fix for that morning brain edge, squeezing in before the next puzzle drops in 24 hours. It's sparking that same buzz as the Times other hits. For Sunday's puzzle on May 3rd, number 791, the hint was something fishy, like a fish out of water. Theme words were all synonyms for odd, stuff like strange, peculiar, bizarre, weird, unusual, quirky. The spangram was, that's odd, snaking vertical and diagonal.

1:00If you cracked it, drop a comment, otherwise hit the app for tomorrow's fresh challenge. That's your update from entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.