Hints, Spangram And Answers For Thursday, May 22nd
Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
Looking for Wednesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
The birds are chirping. The sun is slowly drifting down in the west over the sea. Another day is dying so that tomorrow can be born. Time marches on, though these days, as I travel across a distant land in a very different time-zone, the march feels more like a drunkard’s dance. What day is it now? Thursday already? Why just yesterday it was Wednesday! And with all that out of the way, we have a puzzle to solve and words to uncover!
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, revealing more about the rest of the words on the grid.
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: Keeping an eye on things
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Hint: The watchers.
Clue: Sentinels even.
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: TAKECARE
Here’s the full list of words:
- GUARDIAN
- CUSTODIAN
- TRUSTEE
- STEWARD
- PROTECTOR
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Today’s Strands Breakdown
Finally, a genuinely challenging Strands! I really struggled with this one. Each word was long and difficult to uncover. Even when I was down to one theme word and the spangram, I could not for the life of me uncover either. I mean, eventually I did, once I found PROTECTOR, but TAKECARE was ridiculously hard to find and still kind of feels . . . bad as a spangram, to be honest. Still, a very challenging and rewarding Strands grid today. Best I’ve seen in a long time.
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