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Check your calendars, oh my Strandistas, because it’s a day for bad luck and mischief. Friday the 13th is here and with it all the bad omens and ill tidings you can stomach — if you buy into that sort of thing. The last time we had a Friday the 13th was back in December, 2024. We won’t have another this year. Let’s turn bad luck into good and solve this Strands puzzle!
Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme.
Spoilers ahead.
Today’s Strands Hints
Read on for today’s theme and some hints to help you uncover today’s words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I’m giving out three hints instead of two.
Today’s Theme: Scattering petals
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Hint: At a wedding.
Clue: Would be useful to think about the scatterers as well.
Here are the first two letters of each of today’s words:
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: FLOWERGIRLS
Here’s the full list of words:
- DAISY
- VIOLET
- AZALEA
- LILY
- PETUNIA
- ROSE
- POPPY
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands Breakdown
Another Strands with quite a few words, though not quite as many as yesterday. This one was shockingly easy, or else my brain is just finally warming up now that it’s my last Strands guide for the next couple weeks. Either way, I found POPPY almost instantly and then PETUNIA. When I saw the ‘AZ’ I knew AZALEA would be in there, but it still took me a minute to shape it out. Then there was LILY staring right at me. I snagged FLOWERGIRLS next, today’s spangram, and then ROSE and VIOLET, leaving only a DAISY for me to pluck.
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