Daily Strands guide with theme hints, gameplay tips, and today’s clue breakdown to help you solve the NYT word-find puzzle!

Ctrl+F is a keyboard shortcut that lets you find words or phrases within a document or a webpage on a Windows computer. If you didn’t know such a shortcut existed, don’t worry. You’re not the only ...

I know I’m not for everyone. I am not a wordsmith who’s known for a vocabulary that requires a dictionary to pull in readers. When I write, I tend to avoid “big” words because I don’t talk like that.

Finding the right word at the right time gives each of us the chance to take in a moment of joy — or is that just me? At any rate, I believe in observing little blips of joy in whatever form they ...

Writing is a tough game sometimes. Writers are constantly searching for the perfect word to convey an idea, to share the right emotion, or explain a difficult concept, among other situations. The ...

Today is National Wordsmith Day which, as this website states, “celebrates the weavers of words.” The site elaborates the celebration as follows, “If you have ever read something and it stuck in your ...

As Michael McHale searches for the words, he closes his eyes to concentrate and process. “I know what I want to say, but it doesn’t come out clearly,” McHale said, in between deep pauses and breaths. ...