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Time for a Strands puzzle that I think breaks one record. Maybe a few depending on your knowledge.
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 official NYT hint and then I will make one of my own. The official hint is:
Going underground
My hint is:
Make sure to eat your…
That should set you on the path.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Time to move into the answers starting with the spangram and then the full list of answers after that. The spangram is:
ROOTVEGETABLES
And it looks like this on the board.
The full list of answers is:
- JICAMA
- RUTABAGA
- TURNIP
- BEET
- POTATO
- ROAT
That is..an interesting list. I thought it was going to be any vegetable at first, but we have a very, very specific type, I guess. Root vegetables, which include at least two I’d never heard of before, JIMCAMA and ROAT. Are those real? They don’t seem real. (Looking it up). They are in fact real.
I was looking for CARROT but I guess that did not fit on the puzzle today. I do think this may be a record for the longest spangram I’ve seen, ROOTVEGETABLES is a full 14 letters long and takes up the entire bottom half of the board. The bottom half. Oh, I see what they did there. Clever.
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