NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Wednesday, August 27
Looking for Tuesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
Ready to get wet for today’s Strands? Either bring a swimsuit or a boat.
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:
Go with the flow
And mine is:
Bring a boat
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:
BODIESOFWATER
Here it is on the page, and read on:
The answers are:
- POND
- HARBOR
- OCEAN
- SWAMP
- BAYOU
- LAGOON
- LAKE
They fit a lot in there, but I spent a few minutes looking for river, but there wasn’t a single V in there, which should have been a clue. I always though a harbor was like a built-up section around a body of water, not the body of water itself, but I guess not. I saw “Bay” in there, but that was too short to be a clue, and was a part of bayou instead.
The rest were short but easy, and they needed to be short because that is a very large spangram today. How did you fare today?
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