Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
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Huzzah! I have returned, oh my droogies, to guide you through a week of Strands. We have words to uncover and clues to unpack. It’s puzzle time, and not a moment too soon. The weekend is spread out before us and the world is our oyster. Let’s solve this puzzle1
Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme.
Spoilers ahead.
Today’s Strands Hints
Read on for today’s theme and some hints to help you uncover today’s words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I’m giving out three hints instead of two.
Today’s Theme: In it to win it
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Hint: The language of winning.
Clue: Think about sports movies or championship games.
Here are the first two letters of each of today’s words:
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: GAMECHANGERS
Here’s the full list of words:
- COMEBACK
- RALLY
- UPSET
- THREEPEAT
- ROUT
- SWEEP
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Today’s Strands Breakdown
This was actually a lot harder than I thought it would. I already had a sense that we’d be dealing with words that have to do with some kind of competition, so I wasn’t surprised to find RALLY and UPSET and ROUT. But even easier words like SWEEP stumped for awhile. The spangram, GAMECHANGERS, was actually one of the first words I found, but despite finding BACK it took me a bit to combine it with COME, and THREEPEAT was just not in my day-to-day vocabulary at all. That was the hardest word in this grid by a long shot. But hey, I rallied, had a game-changing comeback and won this thing!
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