Looking for Strands answers for Wednesday, April 23? Check those out below:
Strands has flipped yesterday’s puzzle on its head, and has done something that’s the polar opposite, a trick we do not see all that often.
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]
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Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
The NYT hint is first and then I will make one separately to hopefully help you.
Coarse Material
And mine is:
Scrapes Ahoy
That should be enough to get you started.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
The spangram will be listed first and then a longer list of the actual answers. The spangram is:
ROUGHSTUFF
And here’s where that lies on the board:
The answers are:
- SACKCLOTH
- PUMICE
- BARK
- ROPE
- LOOFAH
- SANDPAPER
So, as I said earlier, this is the opposite of yesterday’s “fuzzy” puzzle with the opposite type of material. It’s weird, the spangram here feels like the hint and the hint feels like it should be the spangram. A few of these are focused on self-care like pumice and loofahs, the rest are just general coarseness but you probably could have picked dozens of other options for that.
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