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Strands Looking for Monday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: 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] The NYT hint is the major one and then I will add a minor one on top of that.
The NYT hint is: What’s the magic word? Mine is: Trick phrases That should get you started. If you only want to know the spangram, that will be first, then the full list of answers are below that. CASTING SPELLS And where you find it: Strands And the answers are: Strands PRESTO ALAKAZAM SHAZAM ABRACADABRA TADA Well, two of these I know because they were extremely strong psychic Pokemon.
One is a DC superhero that got one good movie and one bad one. Presto is one half of change-o, and there we are, all the magical phrases I can think of. But “casting spells” does imply something more Harry Potter-ish to me, but I suppose those are more niche and a lot harder to fit into a tiny puzzle.
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