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When I write my Wordle guides I often refer to Thursdays as Thor’s Day. After all, it’s a day named after the Norse god of storms and thunder, of sacred groves and trees, of lightning and fertility, and of the protection of humankind. Really, a pretty awesome deity, even if now we mostly associate him with the Marvel comic.
So happy Thor’s Day, Stranditos! Let’s solve today’s grid, shall we?
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.
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hint for today’s Strands puzzle, I’ll reveal what the answer words are.
The official theme hint for today’s Strand puzzle is Off the shelf
Here’s an extra hint to help guide you to the solution: Categories
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Strands answers.
I’ll first tell you the spangram and show you where that is on the grid. I’ll then tell you the other words and show you how they fit in.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Strands spangram is . . .
GENRES
Here’s where the Spangram is on the grid:
Once you find the Spangram it’s typically pretty easy to find the rest of the day’s words, but I had trouble with a couple of these. Here’s the full list:
- Humor
- Biography
- Fantasy
- Mystery
- Romance
- Fiction
This one was surprisingly easy compared to the last few days. The Spangram itself is rather short and straightforward. I was expecting something more elaborate, like SCIENCEFICTION since we know that a Spangram can actually be two words now.
I suppose the theme this time around is much more straightforward and far less cryptic than other days as well. I stumbled on biography almost instantly, and then fantasy was super obvious, and romance right after that. At this point, with the top third of the grid blocked off, I knew the Spangram had to go horizontally and lo and behold, there was genres, cutting the board in twain. It’s funny because once I’d guessed the first couple words I was going to use “genre” as my hint for this post, but then it was the Spangram!
I snagged mystery next—not much of a mystery, that one!—and then fiction. All I had left was romance, which is funny because that’s the one thing I don’t have left in the real world. It’s also the one genre here I don’t really read, though I’m not averse to it in my other genres.
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