The Weaselly Wascals Conundrum: What's Behind the NYT Strands Puzzle? The New York Times' latest puzzle craze, Strands, has been making waves among word game enthusiasts.
On its surface, it appears to be a clever mashup of classic word search and logic puzzles.
However, scratch beneath the surface, and you'll find a web of themes, hints, and answers that raise more questions than they answer. Strands taps into our collective fascination with categorization and classification.