About Mini #334
Mini #334 is the daily 5×5 for Sunday, August 30, 2026. Its grid has six black squares, laid out as three-square L-shapes in the top-left and bottom-right corners, which leaves 19 white squares for ten answers: five Across and five Down. By length, that's two five-letter, four four-letter and four three-letter answers.
The shortest clue is 5-Down, “Owns”, at one word; the longest is 4-Across, “Hawaiian party with hula dancing”, at five words. Clues worth knowing about before you start:
- Fill-in-the-blank: 5-Across, “‘Make ___’ (hurry up!)”
Fill-in-the-blank clues are often the quickest way in, so 5-Across, “‘Make ___’ (hurry up!)”, is a good first stop. Some clues lean on a name or title, such as 1-Across, “Homer Simpson's frustrated cry”; if one is unfamiliar, work its crossing answers first. For more ways in, see the solving tips.
How this grid compares
This layout appears in 23 of the 280 daily 5×5 puzzles in our library dated up to August 30, 2026. The layout is rotationally symmetric: turn the grid upside down and the black squares land in the same places. That's two black squares more than the day before (August 29, 2026), which had four.
Like every daily 5×5 in our library, it was generated at our “easy” difficulty setting. The same date also has a 6×6 with 12 clues and a 7×7 with 16 clues.
More for August 30, 2026
Stuck? The hints for August 30, 2026 give three hints per clue, the answer key reveals one answer at a time, and there's a printable copy for solving on paper. The day before, Mini #333 (August 29, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “Note that says ‘I owe you’”; the day after, Mini #335 (August 31, 2026), opens with 1-Across, “First stop in baseball”.