Strands
On the lookout for Tuesday’s Strands hints, spangram and solutions? You could find them right here:
How To Play Strands
The New York Instances’ Strands puzzle is a play on the traditional phrase search. It’s in beta for now, which implies it’ll solely stick round if sufficient folks play it daily.
There’s a brand new sport of Strands to play daily. 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’ll stay highlighted in blue.
You’ll additionally have to discover a particular phrase known 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’ll stay highlighted in yellow.
Each letter is used as soon as in one of many theme phrases and spangram. You possibly can join letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally, and it’s attainable to change instructions in the midst of a phrase. In case you’re taking part in on a touchscreen, double faucet the final letter to submit your guess.
In case you discover three legitimate phrases of not less than 4 letters that aren’t a part of the theme, you’ll unlock the Trace button. Clicking this may spotlight the letters that make up one of many theme phrases.
Be warned: You’ll have to be in your toes. Typically you’ll have to fill the lacking phrase(s) in a phrase. On different days, the sport could revolve round synonyms or homophones. The issue will differ from each day, and the puzzle creators will attempt to shock you typically.
What Is At the moment’s Strands Trace?
Right here is the NYT trace adopted by one among my very own
Shine on
And my trace is:
Taylor Swift hit
What Are At the moment’s Strands Answers?
The spangram is under, and the solutions are after that:
STARPOWER
And right here is the place you discover that on the board:
Strands
And the solutions are:
TWINKLE
RADIATE
GLEAM
DAZZLE
SPARKLE
SHIMMER
Strands
The widespread thread listed below are that these are all totally different phrases for the best way gentle can shine, additionally used for particular person folks glowing in a particular manner. I stored listening to Taylor Swift’s Shimmer run by my head this complete puzzle, which is why it was fairly simple to search out that phrase. The remainder adopted shortly after, and I don’t assume this one was on the more durable facet.
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