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

Some of these word games are challenging while others are more casual.

Thursday’s The Atlantic Games puzzles are here. Find complete solutions for Fluxis, Crossword, Bracket City, and Stacks, all in one place.

In recent weeks, a web-based word puzzle called Wordle has become a popular daily distraction. Suddenly, millions of people are focused on their vocabulary of five-letter words, and are newly aware of concepts like letter frequency and letter position as ...

Use the arrow keys to move your cursor and type to input letters. Only click “submit” when you have all of your guesses ready! Each line on the puzzle can accommodate one word. Words may be between three and five letters long, and may begin anywhere on the line.

It doesn’t feel like long ago that word games and puzzles were the reserve of grandparents or people with time on their hands.

The LinkedIn Games continue today, and the puzzles for the day are extremely simple. So go get your streak going!

Pope Leo XIV, who plays the daily online puzzle Wordle, is not the only papal puzzle lover. His predecessor and namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was also passionate about wordplay, anonymously publishing riddles in Latin.