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We had fall yesterday, and we are staying in the theme of the season for today’s puzzle as well, albeit more toward the holiday end of things.
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:
Witch way?
And mine is:
School of _______
What Are Today’s Strands Answer Hints?
Here are the first two letters of each answer to get you started
- PO
- CA
- IN
- WA
- CH
- AM
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we begin the actual answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:
WIZARDRY
Here it is on the page, and read on:
The answers are:
- POTION
- CAULDRON
- WAND
- CHARM
- INCANTATION
- AMULET
It seemed pretty obvious where this was going, but there are a lot of witch-related words and many of them are not found in here. Many are missing like hat (too short) or broomstick (too long) or spell. Some are a surprise like amulet. I mean, do a lot of witches have amulet? I think it’s somewhat rare, actually. Depends on the witch’s style, I suppose.
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