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Time for your weekend Strands in what I would consider a pretty easy puzzle, but admittedly it did take a few hints for me to 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?
Time to do the NYT hint and then my own hint after that:
Quite a transformation!
And mine is:
From one to another, monstrously
What Are Today’s Strands Answer Hints?
Here are the first two letters of each answer to get you started
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we begin the actual answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:
SHAPESHIFTERS
Here it is on the page, and read on:
The answers are:
- SKINWALKER
- WEREWOLF
- VAMPIRE
- CHANGELING
Not exactly too much room for other words there, as both those and the spangram are quite long. I would have probably put a “hyde” in there, if we’re doing famous, often movie-based transformations, but I suppose the others are more well-known. And actually fit in the puzzle. The best shapeshifter? Mystique from X-Men, obviously.
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