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Hope you had a good Fourth of July. Maybe you’re back at work now, and if so, time for some Strands.
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?
We will start with the official hint from NYT and I will invent one of my own after to further things. The official hint is:
Say something
And mine is
Taking the words out of your mouth
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Spoilers begin as we talk about the answers starting with the spangram and then the full list after that. The spangram is:
ARTICULATION
And here’s where it is:
And the rest are:
- TALK
- SIGN
- UTTER
- SPEAK
- EXPRESS
- TELL
- DECLARE
This was a pretty hard one as even if you sort of know it’s “ways to communicate things” it’s kind of hard to pinpoint some of these as meeting that category. EXPRESS was a heard one I thought. As was UTTER and DECLARE. I used a lot of hints this time around
Did you have trouble with this one like I did? Let me know.
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