Strands
Looking for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here.
Time to play a new game of Strands to start the weekend. It’s definitely a weird one today, we’ll see how you do. But first…
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 do the NYT hint and then my own hint to push you further after that:
Makeshift music
And mine is:
Unconventional instruments.
It’s still going to be hard though, I think.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we begin the answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list, the spangram is:
JUGBAND
Here’s where that is:
Strands
And the rest of the answers:
- SPOONS
- COWBELL
- BROOM
- WASHBOARD
- STOVEPIPE
- BONES
Strands
Alright so uh, I understand this kind of band exists, but I sure didn’t know all the instruments involved, so this was pretty hard. I got WASHBOARD and SPOONS and COWBELL is forever from SNL, but everything else?
No clue that these kind of bands used STOVEPIPEs, BONES or BROOMs. How do you play a broom. Do you put strings on it and turn it into a guitar or something. I even had to look up the term Jug Band as I didn’t know that’s what this was called. How did you do in the puzzle today?
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