Looking for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
We are heading back to something Strands did not that long ago in terms of a concept for a board, and you may catch on to that pretty quickly once you get started.
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?
We will do the NYT hint first then I will invent one of my own to follow up:
Sun Shade
And mine is:
RGB Plus?
That’s enough to get you started.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we will get into the answer portion so spoilers follow. The spangram will be first and the answers below that. The spangram is:
YELLOW
And here’s where that lies on the board:
The answers are:
- SAFFRON
- MUSTARD
- GOLDENROD
- CANARY
- LEMON
- DAFFODIL
I am not in the interior design or exterior paint business so none of these came all that easy to me. Plus I’m colorblind so that certainly doesn’t help. But after the shortest possible spangram, it was relatively easy to fill in the words with the help of a few clues, as I won’t say I didn’t use them.
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