Looking for Monday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
Tuesday’s Strands is the one I finished faster than any other, but if you’re here you might need a little help with it, it seems. Which is totally fine!
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 my hint afterward, which I think will be a little more of a boost for you. Here’s the official hint.
Look it up!
And my hint:
Mainly paper
Hopefully that can get you started.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Spangram first, then we will move into the full list of answers below that. Spoilers follow from here. The spangram is:
REFERENCE
And that is found on the board here:
The rest of the answers are:
- DICTIONARY
- ATLAS
- ALMANAC
- THESAURUS
- HANDBOOK
Long words, so there are only five of them today. I finished this in under a minute with no hints, which almost never happens. I am surprised considering I don’t think I’ve used any of things in 20 years, relics of a paper book era. You can look up most of these online now. I’m not even 100% sure what an ALMANAC even is, but I know the word, so there we go.
I was looking for ENCYCLOPEDIA but we only have so many spaces on the board and that was probably too big. The others revealed themsleves
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