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Rejoice, dearest Strandistas, for I have returned! Your humblest of all Strands guides is back to help you with today’s grid. What great luck! What great fortune! And while I jest, I am happy to be back to solve this fun NYT puzzle alongside all of you. Let’s dive right in!
Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme.
Spoilers ahead.
Today’s Strands Hints
Read on for today’s theme and some hints to help you uncover today’s words.
Today’s Theme: Here we (don’t) go again
Hint #1: Too many cars
Hint #2: Too few alternatives to get where you’re going
To help you uncover all the words, here are the first two letters of every word, including the spangram.
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: TRAFFICJAM
Here’s the full list of words:
- CONGESTION
- GRIDLOCK
- BLOCKAGE
- OVERCROWDING
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands Breakdown
Today’s was a unique Strands in that it only had five words total, including the spangram, and each is obviously quite long. I actually found the spangram first. I found the word LOGJAM and when that didn’t work, I tried to find something else to tag the JAM to, and there was TRAFFIC, plain as day. From here, I found BLOCKAGE and then noticed an ING next to it. Again, working in reverse I discovered OVERCROWDING. Only two words remained, and these were definitely tricky, but once I spotted the TION and worked backward, there was CONGESTION and it was just a hop, skip and a jump to GRIDLOCK. Man, I hate traffic so much.
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