Looking for Friday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
Here we have an appropriate Strands for Saturday mornings, and you’ll see why soon enough.
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:
Toon time
And mine is:
Saturday mornings
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:
CHARACTERS
Here’s where that is:
And here are the other answers:
- BUGS
- PORKY
- DAFFY
- PETUNIA
- GRANNY
- FOGHORN
- FOXY
Well this is quite the split. In CHARACTERS we specifically have just Looney Tunes characters, which is not actually the spangram itself. Half of these are heavy hitters like BUGS, DAFFY and PORKY, others, less so, like GRANNY, PETUNIA (female Porkey) and FOXY, who is a blatant WB rip-off of Mickey Mouse from back in the day that I had no idea existed. As such, I think some people might struggle with this one.
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