Each day, the New York Times Strands puzzle offers players a small meditation disguised as a word game — and today's theme, 'Practically Paleolithic,' turns the grid into a quiet reckoning with time itself. Words like Ancient, Archaic, and Bygone lie hidden in a lattice of letters, waiting to be traced by those willing to slow down and look. The spangram 'That's Old News' stretches across the whole board, a wry reminder that what feels distant is never entirely gone — only rearranged.