Looking for some help with Saturday's NYT Strands? An extra hint, the starting letters of each theme word and the answers are right here.

Strands is a tricky take on the classic word search from NYT Games. If you're stuck and cannot solve today's puzzle, we've got help for you here.

Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Name of the game" — is really vague, but will become clear when you have an answer or two on the board.Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #256,