NYT Strands Hints and Answers for May 26: 'On the Nature Trail'

Each morning, the New York Times offers a quiet invitation to slow down and look closely — at letters, at patterns, at the small things one might notice on a walk through the woods. Today's Strands puzzle, themed around the nature trail, asks players to find six words drawn from the living world: a pawprint, a feather, a daisy, a puddle, moss, an acorn. At the center of it all is a spangram — SCAVENGERHUNT — a word that spans the board and names the spirit of the search itself. In a culture of high-stakes games and relentless scoring, Strands offers something rarer: a puzzle you cannot lose.