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As your week starts and you begin to plan out your calendar, this is a particularly relevant puzzle. You’ll see what I mean.
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.
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.
Every letter is used once in one of the theme words and spangram. You can connect letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally, and it’s possible to switch directions in the middle of a word. If you’re playing on a touchscreen, double tap the last letter to submit your guess.
If you find three valid words of at least four letters that are not part of the theme, you’ll unlock the Hint button. Clicking this will highlight the letters that make up one of the theme words.
Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes. Sometimes you’ll need to fill the missing word(s) in a phrase. On other days, the game may revolve around synonyms or homophones. The difficulty will vary from day to day, and the puzzle creators will try to surprise you sometimes.
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
The NYT hint is pretty good but I am going to make up one after that to push you further.
Plan on it
And my hint is:
Save the date
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Spoilers follow as we start with the spangram and move on to the full list of answers after that.
CALENDAR
And is found on the board here:
The list of answers are:
- DATE
- WEEK
- MONTH
- YEAR
- EVENT
- APPOINTMENT
- HOLIDAY
So, this one was pretty easy I thought, a combination of the actual metrics of a calendar, week, month year, with things that appear on the calendar itself like dates, appointments or events. Rather straightforward and the zig-zagging spangram in the middle is not exactly the hardest one we’ve ever seen.
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