Each day, the New York Times Strands puzzle offers a small ritual of pattern recognition and patience — and on this Saturday, it casts players into the wilderness, asking them to find the tools of survival hidden within a grid of letters. The spangram SURVIVALIST anchors the board, while six practical words — machete, hatchet, flint, paracord, tarp, shovel — remind us that human ingenuity, distilled into objects, is what separates endurance from exposure. It is a gentle meditation on preparedness, dressed as a word search.
NYT Strands Hints and Answers for May 23: 'Staying Alive'
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