<ul><li>Strands is a new daily puzzle from the New York Times, similar to word search but trickier.</li><li>Players need to find 'theme words' hidden in a grid of letters by manipulating and confirming them.</li><li>Non-theme words of four letters or more provide hints, and every letter in the grid is used to spell theme words.</li><li>Today's theme in Strands is 'Riding the wind' with the spanagram 'SAILBOAT' and answers like HELM, HULL, KEEL, MAST, RUDDER, STERN, TILLER, and RIGGING.</li></ul>

NYT Strands today: hints, spangram and answers for Sunday, May 18

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