Looking for Tuesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
It’s Wednesday, and we have words to uncover. This is another slightly trickier puzzle, though we haven’t seen any really hard challenges in some time. Yesterday’s Strands was tricky also. In any case, no need to waste time rambling when we could be word-hunting. Let’s solve today’s grid!
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
Today’s Theme: What’s your reaction?
Hint #1: You might sneeze around these.
Hint #2: Or get red, watery eyes.
To help you uncover all the words, here are the first two letters of each word:
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: ALLERGENS
Here’s the full list of words:
- SMOKE
- MOLD
- FRAGRANCE
- LATEX
- DANDER
- DUST
- POLLEN
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands Breakdown
I found SMOKE pretty quickly, though at first I thought this might mean we were looking for chemical reactions like SMOKE, FIRE and so forth. Then I found DUST and MOLD and POLLEN and was quickly able to work backward to find ALLERGENS, the spangram. The last few, other than LATEX, were the hardest to puzzle out by far. DANDER isn’t a word I see that often and I had to think long and hard before I could tease it into being. FRAGRANCE was similarly difficult, though once I began typing the letters out I saw it immediately. Sometimes you just need that visual aid.
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