The daily word search for August 22, 2026 is themed “Picnic Basket”: seven hidden words in a 10 × 10 grid of letters, tuned to easy difficulty and identical for every player who opens it.
Word lengths range from 6 letters (“Grapes”) to 8 (“Sandwich”); since every word reads left-to-right or top-to-bottom — no reversed words, no diagonals, plan your scanning pattern accordingly. Every entry ties back to “Picnic Basket”, so the theme is a free head start — related vocabulary jumps off the grid once you are primed for it. As entry #22 of the ongoing run, this date has a permanent home at this URL for anyone working through the back catalog.
The clock starts when you press Play and stops on the final find, leaving a shareable result that gives none of the locations away. 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.