Looking for Tuesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here.
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 start with the NYT hint and I will make one of my own after that to push you further. The official hint is:
American beauty
And mine is:
Vacation spots
We’ll see if that gets you anywhere.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
This is where answers begin so beware of spoilers if you don’t want to get this far. We will start with the spangram and the full list will come after. The spangram is
NATIONAL PARKS
And that can be found here:
The rest of the answers are below:
- REDWOOD
- ARCHES
- BADLANDS
- GLACIER
- SAGUARO
Well, I have been to two of these, heard of two, and have never heard of one. Have been to GLACIER and REDWOOD, know of BADLANDS and ARCHES, but I definitely had to look up SAGUARO for this puzzle. It’s a desert national park near Tuscon, Arizona.
It looks pretty enough, but GLACIER park was probably one of my all-time favorite trips. The trees were certainly gorgeous in REDWOOD. I suppose I should put the others on my bucket list. How many have you been to?
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