“Pet Friends” is the theme for August 10, 2026: seven words tucked into a 10 × 10 letter grid at easy difficulty, served identically to every visitor on this permanent page.
Across the seven entries, lengths run 5 to 8 letters. “Puppy” looks like the quickest find on paper, though here every word reads left-to-right or top-to-bottom — no reversed words, no diagonals, so nothing is handed to you. A themed grid like “Pet Friends” rewards a first pass for rare letters: the topic vocabulary decides which letters are worth chasing. Board #10 of the series lives on this page for keeps — the same letters in the same cells, and the same fair comparison of times.
If a word refuses to appear, a hint flashes its starting letter on the grid for a few seconds — hints are counted in your recap, never punished. Brush up with the how-to-play guide, revisit any past date in the archive, and once the daily is done, the puzzle library offers plenty more grids to clear.