Looking for Friday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
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]
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Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
Time to do the NYT hint and then my own hint after that:
Pretty as a picture
And mine is:
You can do it on your phone now
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we begin the answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:
PHOTOEDITING
Here it is on the page, and read on:
Here is the answer list:
- FILTER
- MARKUP
- ROTATE
- BLUR
- ADJUST
- CROP
- ERASE
So this was an interesting one, given that I thought it was just going to be about photography in general, but it’s getting more specific about the process of editing in particular. For a long while it was only professional photographers who did this, but now anyone with a phone can as well. Some of these are used more than others, and I feel like “adjust” was a little broad, but yes, my hunt for normal photo words like LENSE and APERTURE did not pan out today.
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