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It’s Odin’s Day, smackdab in the middle of the week, and we have words to uncover. Another Strands to delight and frustrate us. These are always the hardest right at the get-go, when everything is just a jumble of letters. Sometimes, even when the theme is obvious, it’s just hard to find that first word. Other times, the words practically leap off the page. Today’s puzzle was the former. I struggled to get started but once I did, everything fell nicely into place.
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: If you build it . . .
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Hint: Think “Gothic” or “Victorian”
Clue: Or Adrian Brody’s latest award-winning film.
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: ARCHITECTURE
Here’s the full list of words:
- BAROQUE
- REVIVAL
- DECO
- BRUTALIST
- CLASSICAL
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands Breakdown
As I noted up above, this one took me awhile to get started, but once I’d found DECO and REVIVAL, I was off to the races. BRUTALIST made finding the spangram — ARCHITECTURE — easy enough. The only one that really gave me trouble was BAROQUE, which I just couldn’t get my head around for the longest time. If it isn’t BAROQUE, don’t fix it!
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