Hints, Spangram And Answers For Wednesday, July 2nd
Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
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Odin’s Day is here, which means over in my Wordle Wednesday guide, there’s a special riddle to solve. I don’t do those for Strands since I don’t write the Strands guide every week, but if you play Wordle and want an extra puzzle today, head over to my blog. In the meantime, we have some Strands 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. 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: This is for the birds
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Hint: Things birds gather.
Clue: Then use for avian construction projects.
Here are the first two letters of each word:
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: NESTINGMATERIAL
Here’s the full list of words:
- LEAF
- WOOL
- TWIG
- FLUFF
- MOSS
- FEATHER
- GRASS
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Today’s Strands Breakdown
Lots of words in this one, though none of them particularly difficult. And the spangram—NESTINGMATERIAL—kind of looks like a next, or perhaps a golden chalice. I found a couple bird-like words early on, such as fowl, but those were no good. As I started getting answers like LEAF and WOOL and TWIG it began to occur to me that all of these were things birds used to make nests. Once I had that in mind it became much easier to track down the rest.
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