NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Friday, June 27

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ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For June 26By Paul Tassi

How To Play Strands

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]

Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”

What Is Today’s Strands Hint?

Time to do the NYT hint and then my own hint after that:

Playing dirty

And mine is:

Child’s play

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Now we begin the answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:

SANDBOXTOYS

Here it is on the page, and read on:

And the answers today are:

• MOLD
• TRUCK
• SHOVEL
• BUCKET
• SIFTER
• RAKE
• FUNNEL

Well, this one through me for a loop. I saw the hint, playing dirty, and my first word was “mold.” So then I started looking for other dirty words like mildew and gunk and things like that. None of those appeared because of course that was not the puzzle at all. Even realizing it was sandbox toys, I still struggled with sifter, as that’s not a very common word even though I know it’s a sandbox staple now.

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