Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
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Monday, Monday. The week has begun and as per usual, Monday is a day of many appointments and meetings and all that fun stuff. Busy busy bee, that’s me. Let’s buzz right into today’s Strands and uncover some words!
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: Half-and-half
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Hint: Mythological creatures, mostly.
Clue: Think Minotaur and the like.
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: HYBRIDCREATURE
Here’s the full list of words:
- MERMAN
- JACKALOPE
- SATYR
- CENTAUR
- GRIFFIN
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Today’s Strands Breakdown
This was a tricky one. Fewer words than yesterday’s Strands, but harder ones overall. I really struggled until I found CENTAUR, because I had no idea what Half-and-half was referring to (and naturally my thoughts turned to coffee creamer). Once I found that, I found SATYR and then the spangram, HYBRIDCREATURE. With these out of the way, GRIFFIN and MERMAN were simply enough to find, and while JACKALOPE is certainly not an easy word, it was the only one left.
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