“Mountain Hike” is the theme for August 25, 2026: ten words tucked into a 14 × 14 letter grid at medium difficulty, served identically to every visitor on this permanent page.
From “Vista” at 5 letters to “Switchback” at 10, the list gives you plenty of shapes to hunt; at this difficulty words run across and down but also climb diagonals and read backwards. The “Mountain Hike” angle gives the board its character — expect familiar picks alongside one or two entries you would not have named first. Chronologically it is daily #25, and like every other date it never expires, so skipped days can be made up at your own pace.
A steady method beats darting eyes: pick a word, scan for its first letter, and check the neighboring cells for the second. Full rules live in the how-to-play guide; catch up on missed dates through the archive, or branch into the themed puzzle library at any difficulty.