Looking for Saturday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
New Strands for the weekend here and some pet owners may find it easier than some of the others.
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?
NYT hint comes first followed by one that I will invent on my own. Here is the NYT hint first:
Kitty Corner
Mine is:
Feline Frenzy
This may be a little misleading? We’ll see.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
We will start with the spangram and the full list of answers will be below that. Here is the spangram:
CATBEHAVIOR
And where you find it:
And the full answer list:
- SNUGGLE
- PURR
- SWAT
- HISS
- BLINK
- STRETCH
- POUNCE
At first I thought this was going to be different breeds of cats but I figured out pretty quickly that it was not. I was a little surprised to not see “meow” on the list here, but I guess you can’t do everything. But “blink”? That one seemed a bit odd and not like it’s cat-specific or anything, but I guess they ran out of five letter words.
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