NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Sunday, July 21

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ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Saturday, July 20By Paul Tassi

No day of relaxation for us right now, for there’s one other Strands puzzle to play and you may remedy it over breakfast this Sunday morning. But first…

How To Play Strands

The New York Times’ 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 individuals play it each day.

There’s a brand new recreation of Strands to play each day. The recreation 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 frequent, and also you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you discover a theme phrase, it can stay highlighted in blue.

You’ll additionally must discover a particular phrase known as a spangram. This tells you what the phrases have in frequent. The spangram hyperlinks two reverse sides of the board. While the theme phrases won’t be a correct identify, the spangram could be a correct identify. When you discover the spangram, it can stay highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: You’ll should be in 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 trace after which my very own trace to push you additional after that:

S-words? (A innovative theme)

And mine is:

Weapons

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

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

BLADES

Here’s the place that’s:

And the remainder of the solutions:

• CUTLASS
• RAPIER
• KATANA
• CLAYMORE
• SCIMITAR
• MACHETE

So the phrase “swords” shouldn’t be in right here in any respect, however these are all varied kinds of blades or swords, although issues like a MACHETE wouldn’t technically be categorized as a sword. My years of taking part in medieval video video games allowed me to do an ideal run on this puzzle, however I think about it might be tougher for some.

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