Sitemap: every page on Strands Hint
Strands Hint publishes 934 pages: 20 reference pages, 30 monthly archive indexes and 884 dated puzzle records, one for every NYT Strands puzzle published since March 4, 2024. All of them are listed or reachable below, and the machine-readable version is at /sitemap.xml.
What are today's Strands pages?
These four pages change every day at midnight New York time, when the next puzzle publishes.
- Strands hints for today: theme clue, spangram length and position, answers
- Yesterday's Strands answers: the previous puzzle in full
- Strands word finder: every non-theme word today's board accepts
- Search the archive: by clue, spangram, theme word, date or number
Which pages explain how Strands works?
The rules, the spangram and the hint mechanic each live on one page and are linked from everywhere else.
- What is NYT Strands?: the game, its parts and where it is played
- How to play Strands: the rules in the order you meet them
- How to solve Strands faster: nine tactics, spangram first
- What is a spangram?: the two properties, and the length distribution
- The Strands hint system: three non-theme words buy one hint
- Is Strands free?: where the free line ends and the archive begins
Which pages hold the figures?
Every number on these pages is computed from the solved corpus, not estimated or copied.
- Strands by the numbers: every puzzle analysed
- The difficulty index: the published formula and its percentiles
- Strands editors and constructors: who built each puzzle, by count
- Strands puzzle numbers: date to number lookup
Which pages index the whole archive?
These four cut the corpus a different way, so a half-remembered puzzle can be found from whichever end you remember it.
- The Strands archive: every puzzle since March 4, 2024
- Every theme ever used: all clues, A to Z
- Every spangram ever used: all spangrams, by length
- Every theme word ever used: the full answer vocabulary
Which pages are about the site itself?
Two pages, one naming who writes this and how the figures are computed, one stating what the site collects.
- About Strands Hint: the author and the method
- Privacy policy: what is collected and what is not
Where are the 884 dated puzzle pages?
Every published puzzle has one permanent page carrying its theme clue, spangram, answers and the verified board position of every word. They are grouped by the month they published in, and each month below links to all of its days.
What are the most recent Strands records?
The last 30 dated pages are listed here directly, newest first, because they are the ones still being searched for by date rather than by theme.
- August 4, #884
- August 3, #883
- August 2, #882
- August 1, #881
- July 31, #880
- July 30, #879
- July 29, #878
- July 28, #877
- July 27, #876
- July 26, #875
- July 25, #874
- July 24, #873
- July 23, #872
- July 22, #871
- July 21, #870
- July 20, #869
- July 19, #868
- July 18, #867
- July 17, #866
- July 16, #865
- July 15, #864
- July 14, #863
- July 13, #862
- July 12, #861
- July 11, #860
- July 10, #859
- July 9, #858
- July 8, #857
- July 7, #856
- July 6, #855
How often does this sitemap change?
One dated page is added every day at 00:00 New York time, which is also when the archive month for the current month gains a row and the four daily pages change content. The 20 reference pages change only when the underlying corpus does. The corpus itself now holds 884 solved boards and 4072 distinct theme words.