puzzles

 My new strategy for doing puzzles is this. I will do Wordle, Connections. For the Spelling Bee, I only look for the pangram, or word that uses all seven letters. I won't waste time looking for 40 other words. Curiously, I can often just look at the letters and see the pangram right away. Or if not, I just look at it later in the day and the word will often come to me. If I try to find as many words as possible, finding the pangram is much more difficult. (I will look at the hints to see how many pangrams there are, and will try to find all of them.)  

There is a newish game called "strands." I don't do it anymore because it is too easy.  I feel like an adult doing a child's game.  

For crosswords, I will do the mini, and then try to complete a puzzle in 5 minutes for Monday, 10 minutes for Tuesday, etc... For today's, for example, I completed a Friday in about 26 minutes, close to my goal.