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ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Monday, June 23By 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:

Healthful helpers

And mine is:

Once a day

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:

SUPPLEMENTS

Here it is on the page, and read on:

And the answers are:

• ZINC
• FLAXSEED
• CALCIUM
• MAGNESIUM
• PROBIOTIC

Well, I started out thinking these were all going to be literal vitamins, but the category is a little bit more broad than that, extending into all supplements. Some of these you can in fact snap up in a multivitamin, but others you’re going to want to take independently. Combine them all, along with a lot of others not listed here, and you will be on your way to a healthier life, if the experts are to be believed.

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