Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
Credit: New York Times
And so we have come at last to the first day of fall. A new season, like a new chapter, filled with opportunities. Have you gotten your pumpkins yet? Some people on my street have already begun hanging ghosts from trees. Here comes Halloween, here comes Halloween! Are you dressing up as anything this year? I think I’m going to go as a brother of the Night’s Watch from Game Of Thrones, copying my son’s costume and joining him in taking sacred vows in the Godswood.
But first, let’s solve this Strands!
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How To Play Strands
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.
Today’s Theme: Lip service
Hint: The lips on your face
Clue: What you can do with your lips, solo, silently
Here are the first two letters of each word:
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: EXPRESSIONS
Here’s the full list of words:
- SMILE
- SNEER
- FROWN
- SMIRK
- GRIN
- SCOWL
- GAPE
- POUT
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Screenshot: Erik Kain
Today’s Strands Breakdown
I tore through today’s Strands, possibly because the words were all so short—though I found the spangram—EXPRESSIONS—first, somehow. I sometimes go for the hardest letter I can see first, and today I saw the X and pretty quickly uncovered the word. From here, SMILE and GRIN were super obvious, and the rest fell like dominoes. Though perhaps I’m mixing my metaphors a bit, having also just done today’s Pips.
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