“Football Season” is the theme for October 9, 2026: ten words tucked into a 14 × 14 letter grid at medium difficulty, served identically to every visitor on this permanent page.
The full find list is visible from the start — ten entries between 6 and 9 letters, with “Touchdown” the longest trail of cells to trace. At medium difficulty, words run across and down but also climb diagonals and read backwards. The “Football Season” angle gives the board its character — expect familiar picks alongside one or two entries you would not have named first. This is daily board #70 in the series, and the page keeps this permanent address after the date passes, so a late solve counts just as much as a same-day one.
Rare letters are the classic shortcut — a Q, X, or Z in the list narrows the whole grid to a handful of starting cells. 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.