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Time for a new Strands puzzle and this is the most difficult one I have done in a while, which required even a bit of cheating to find all the answers, which I hate doing.
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 first, then mine will come after:
All wrapped up
And mine is:
Hidden deliciousness
You’ll find out what this means soon enough.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
In the answer portion of today’s program we start with the spangram and then do the full answer list. The spangram is:
DUMPLINGS
And that is on the board right here:
The rest of the answers are:
- RAVLIOLI
- PIEROGI
- EMPANADA
- SAMOSA
- WONTON
- GYOZA
Geez yeah okay. This was hard. At first I thought this was going to be any wrapped food, but then I realized from the spangram it was only DUMPLINGs which made things a lot harder. I guess I did not realize that a pasta dish like RAVIOLI was technically a dumpling, though I guess that makes sense. I could not spell PIEROGI for the life of me, and for some reason it took me forever to figure out EMPANADA. I got the other three relatively easily as something like GYOZA or WONTON were the first to come to mind. Usually I’m drinking SAMOSAs.
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