NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Monday, June 2

On the lookout for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and solutions? Yow will discover them right here:

ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Sunday, June 1By Paul Tassi

How To Play Strands

The New York Occasions’ Strands puzzle is a play on the basic phrase search. It’s in beta for now, which implies it’ll solely stick round if sufficient folks play it day by day.

There’s a brand new sport of Strands to play day by day. The sport will current you with a six by eight grid of letters. The intention is to discover a group of phrases which have one thing in widespread, and also you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. Whenever you discover a theme phrase, it’s going to stay highlighted in blue.

You’ll additionally have to discover a particular phrase referred to as a spangram. This tells you what the phrases have in widespread. The spangram hyperlinks two reverse sides of the board. Whereas the theme phrases is not going to be a correct title, the spangram is usually a correct title. Whenever you discover the spangram, it’s going to stay highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: You’ll have to be in your toes.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They could even be steps in a course of, gadgets that every one belong to the identical class, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Occasions notes. “Simply as she varies the problem of Wordle puzzles inside per week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy]

Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs each every so often.”

What Is At the moment’s Strands Trace?

Time to do the NYT trace after which my very own trace after that:

On the vine

And mine is:

Spaghetti ingredient

What Are At the moment’s Strands Answers?

Now we start the reply portion of this system which is the spangram and the complete listing of the opposite solutions, the spangram is:

TOMATO

Right here it’s on the web page, and skim on:

And the solutions are:

• CHERRY
• HEIRLOOM
• JUBILEE
• BEEFCAKE
• LUNCHBOX
• PLUM

Nicely, right here you may have it, a puzzle made out of tomatoes from begin to end. By no means thought I’d see the day. I solely knew about three of those offhand, CHERRY, PLUM and HEIRLOOM. I imply I’ve *seen* different tomatoes, however I’ve genuinely by no means heard of BEEFCAKE or LUNCHBOX tomatoes. Which of them are identical to, regular tomatoes? In any case, just a few clues let me discover the phrases regardless, and I discovered just a few issues.

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