Looking for Saturday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
Time for a fresh Strands to start the weekend, even if you’re not putting off work to do so.
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 and then my own hint to push you further after that:
Good on paper
And mine is:
Back to school
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we begin the answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list, the spangram is:
OFFICESUPPLIES
Here’s where that is:
Here are the rest of the answers:
RULER
SCISSORS
STAPLER
PRINTER
PENCILS
I’m not going to lie, I thought this one was pretty hard. I guess technically all of these do have to do with paper, but I thought it was like marking on paper at first, and PRINTER did not occur to me. And the spangram? OFFICESUPPLIES looping around like a paperclip is actually very funny, though hard to find (I was actually looking for paperclip to be a word but it wasn’t). How did you do?
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