Looking for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
How To Play Strands
The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in beta for now, which means it’ll only stick around if enough people play it every day. Keep playing, in other words. It’s our collective mission to keep this game alive and get it on the app!
There’s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.
You’ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram links two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.
Strands still isn’t on the New York Times games app, but you can play it right here.
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hint for today’s Strands puzzle, I’ll reveal what the answer words are.
The official theme hint for today’s Strand puzzle is: Noodle on this one
Here’s an extra hint to help guide you to the solution: No Italian, all English.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Strands answers.
Today’s Spangram
I’ll first tell you the spangram and show you where that is on the grid. I’ll then tell you the other words and show you how they fit in.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Strands spangram is . . .
PASTASHAPES
Here’s where the Spangram is on the grid:
All Today’s Strands Answers
I’m not sure if you really need any extra hints beyond the very obvious “noodle” theme and the Spangram, which spells out exactly what you’re on the lookout for. These are all very much shapes of pasta. Don’t try for stuff like spaghetti or fettucine. Think in terms of actual shapes like, for instance, shell pasta.
If you need extra help, spoilers below!
Here’s the full list of words:
- Elbow
- Spiral
- Shell
- Tube
- Ribbon
- Bowtie
- Wheel
Today’s Strands Breakdown
Weirdly, the one tricky word out of all of these was the spangram. I found PASTA without any issue, but then got stumped on where to go with it until I had every other word. Once I found the rest, PASTASHAPES became obvious, but until then I was really stuck! Go figure. Now I want pasta.
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