Looking for Wednesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
After election day you may want to either celebrate with some Strands or avoid reality with it for a few minutes. So here we go.
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?
NYT hint is first and then I will give you one of my own that I think will help you along further. The official hint is:
Extremely Online
And mine is
Internet Actions
I think that’s probably enough to get you started.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Time for the answers for the day and spoilers will follow, so be careful. We will start with the spangram and move on from there. The spangram is:
SOCIAL MEDIA
And here’s where that lies on the board:
The answers are:
- LIKE
- COMMENT
- FOLLOW
- REPORT
- TWEET
- POST
- SHARE
So these are all effectively “actions” you take online, buttons to click on social media that allow you to post or interact with a post. The only one I could think of that didn’t make the list was SUBSCRIBE but I guess that was probably too long for such a small board. I also like that TWEET is still there even though Elon Musk renamed it X and you’re not supposed to say that anymore.
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