Looking for Saturday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
Interesting puzzle today that will test your knowledge of a particular type of science which you may or may not be familiar with, which may make this easy or hard.
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.
Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes.
“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy] Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
The official NYT hint is more clever than the hint that I will give you below that, but I want to give you that extra boost:
Ore so they say
Mine is:
Minerals
Yeah mine is a little more straightforward there
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
The spangram is below and then we will move on to the full list of answers, so spoilers ahead:
PUREMETAL
And where you find it:
And the answer list:
- TITANIUM
- IRON
- ALUMINUM
- NICKEL
- COBALT
- CADMIUM
So, a few common metals, a few more rare like cadmium. I had trouble looping around the letters for aluminum for a minute there as the path through was just a touch confusing. There are a lot of metals that could have gone in here, so even if you know a bunch, finding them would be a bit of a challenge depending on what you were looking for.
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