Looking for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
For some reason I found this Strands today absolutely baffling to the point where I sat there staring at it for probably ten minutes even trying to hunt down any more four letter words for clues. But I got it in the end.
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?
The NYT hint will give you a vague idea and then mine will try to clarify. Here’s the hint:
You’re Pushing My Buttons
Mine is:
Not A Browser
I wanted to cut out a whole idea here.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
The spangram will be first followed by the answers, in this case, it actually looks like what it describes a bit.
REMOTECONTROL
And where you find it:
Here is the answer list:
- CHANNEL
- VOLUME
- MUTE
- BACK
- GUIDE
- HOME
- POWER
So, I am so internet-pilled that I thought that these were going to be buttons you pressed in a browser, as I found HOME and BACK first. But from there, I found POWER and was confused, thinking maybe this was just any type of button. Ultimately, I got to the remote control concept which…I have become less than familiar with watching things on my PC or iPad.
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