If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace. These words are cozy. These words are names for groups of animals. Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-rumgys, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for October 21's Wordle solution revealed.

The word puzzle created by Brooklyn-based software engineer Josh Wardle quickly gained global popularity once it was made public.

Todays Wordle answer will be difficult to solve unless players use hints to guide them in the right direction and help them preserve their streak.