The New York Times’ excellent word search game is now in its Games app

Strands, The New York Times’ precise bully connection hunt game, has been officially added to the NYT’s Games app connected iOS and Android.

For maine personally, this is huge. Strands has go my favourite of the NYT’s games since it launched successful beta successful March, but I was annoyed that I had to bounce betwixt the app and a browser to implicit my regular Wordle, Connections, and Strands. Now, I tin bash each of the puzzles close successful the app implicit my greeting coffee. It’s the small things!

Each Strands puzzle has a theme. That taxable hints astatine the words you’ll request to find — including the “spanagram” connection that spans crossed other sides of the puzzle. Every missive successful the puzzle is utilized for a themed connection oregon the spanagram. If you request immoderate help, you tin get hints by uncovering 3 non-themed words connected the board.

Strands is presently the NYT’s “third astir searched game, down Wordle and Connections,” and is “nearly arsenic popular” arsenic Spelling Bee, The New York Times says in a blog post. Most radical are really finishing their Strands puzzles, too: “We consistently spot 83% of Strands players uncovering the Spangram each day, and completion complaint is astir 81%, akin to the Mini Crossword and Tiles.” Strands volition beryllium added to the Game tab successful the main NYT app “later this year.”

The New York Times’ games aren’t ever hits connected the level of Wordle, Connections, oregon Strands. Digits, a math-based puzzle game, was lone disposable successful beta for a fewer months. At slightest it had a clever title.