Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
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Sunday is a great day to sit around and do nothing, but I already used my “do-nothing-all-day” card on Friday this week. So I guess it’s all work and no play for me, but not before we solve today’s Strands!
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
Today, I’ll give you a hint for the grid as a whole, and then hints for each word you need to find, because these are really tough words!
Today’s Theme: Sleep tight
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Hint: Things you do before you go to bed.
Clue: Or things you wear.
Here are the hints for each word:
- If you grind your teeth
- If your partner snores
- If you’re bothered by light
- If you have a hard time going to sleep
- If you need to clear your mind to relax
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: BEDTIME
Here’s the full list of words:
- MOUTHGUARD
- EARPLUGS
- MASK
- MELATONIN
- MEDITATION
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Today’s Strands Breakdown
This one was really difficult for me for some reason. Maybe I’m underslept. The easiest word on here was MASK followed closely by the spangram, BEDTIME. The others were really tricky, mostly because they were all pretty long words. After much unscrambling, I finally found MOUTHGUARD and EARPLUGS, but even then, it was tricky to uncover MELATONIN and MEDITATION. This was one exhausting bedtime routine!
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