Looking for Friday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
A very specific type of Strands today, and if you participated in a particular activity, this may be easier to solve than most. Though I did get a perfect score even without that, no hints needed.
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.
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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 will be first and then I will make one of my own too.
Join the Chorus
And my hint is:
Types of Voice
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
The spangram will be first, and then the answer list is below that. Here’s the spangram:
CHOIRPARTS
And here is where you find that on the board:
Now we have the answers:
- TREBLE
- ALTO
- SOPRANO
- BASS
- TENOR
- MEZZO
- BARITONE
So, that’s essentially all the main roles of a choir, hence the hint, and it may depend on your history with the concept to get all of these, or none of these, so this could end up being a pretty hard one. If you didn’t know almost all of them, I wouldn’t blame you, but hopefully these hints helped you here.
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