Looking for Monday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
After yesterday’s all-time difficult Strands puzzle with made-up words, I can promise you that this one is going to be a bit easier.
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.
Every letter is used once in one of the theme words and spangram. You can connect letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally, and it’s possible to switch directions in the middle of a word. If you’re playing on a touchscreen, double tap the last letter to submit your guess.
If you find three valid words of at least four letters that are not part of the theme, you’ll unlock the Hint button. Clicking this will highlight the letters that make up one of the theme words.
Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes. Sometimes you’ll need to fill the missing word(s) in a phrase. On other days, the game may revolve around synonyms or homophones. The difficulty will vary from day to day, and the puzzle creators will try to surprise you sometimes.
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
Official hint comes first and then I will make one up to help things along further.
It’s lit!
And my hint is:
Reading Rainbow
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
The spangram is first and then the answer list will be below that.
FICTIONGENRE
And here is where you find that on the board:
Here are all the answers:
ROMANCE
CRIME
WESTERN
HISTORICAL
FANTASY
Well, I was looking for science-fiction, my favorite genre, but it didn’t make the cut. I didn’t realize western fiction was its own subgenre, but I guess that does make sense. I was confused because I thought Fiction would be the spangram as it goes from one side to the other, but they wanted us to wrap back around for Genre too I guess.
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