Today’s Strand Tips and Answers for Saturday, April 13

Start your weekend off right by solving the Strands Answers for Today, April 13.

If you’re new to Strands, your goal with this particular New York Times daily puzzle is to find all the topic words and a “Spangram” in a word search-style grid. All regular words relate to this Spangram, which is a word or phrase that you also need to find in word search.

To help you narrow down the theme and guess associated words, a topic sentence is provided. Using this clue, you then have to find all the correct words relating to it. The only problem is that your letters have to be next to each other, so it’s easier to find words than in a regular word search, because you can go in any direction, but it also makes it more difficult searching for the exact topic words, because there are some. so many options.

Fortunately, there is a hint system. For every word you submit that isn’t a theme word or a Spangram, you progress toward unlocking a clue. Once you unlock one, you can press the hint button and the outline of a correct theme word will be highlighted.

It’s also important to note that Strands is currently in beta, so some of these rules may change in the future when it’s fully released.

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Tips for Today’s Strands Answer

Instead of going straight to the answers, you may only need a few clues to help you understand all the topic words and the Spangram, so here are a few. tips for today’s strands:

• Today’s theme, “Group think” refers to old Rock and Roll groups.
• The Spangram starts on the first line, ends on the sixth line and has 9 letters.
• In total, there is one four-letter, three five-letter, one six-letter, and two seven-letter theme words to be found in today’s Strands.
• The six-letter word is also the name of a toxic substance that starts on the right of the fifth row and ends with one of the “N”s in the first row.
• One of the five-letter words is also the name of a fertile desert area, and it starts in the middle of the seventh row and ends with the “S” on the seventh row.

Strands Answers for April 13

Here are the Strands answers for today:

• RUSHING
• QUEEN
• HEART
• OASIS
• POISON
• JOURNEY
• NIRVANA

Today’s Strands Spangram is called “ROCK BANDS”.

It took me a while to come up with the theme for today’s Strands because I got “QUEEN” first, so I thought it might be related to the leaders controlling the groups. It turned out to be a lot easier than that, but how quickly you get today’s answers depends on your knowledge of old-school rock music (or your knowledge of Glee, I suppose… ). I hope the clues above also helped you solve today’s strands!

What to play after Strands

You may have heard of this game called Wordle? It’s pretty good, we think it could stay. If you’ve already solved this problem today, the New York Times has other games. When it comes to word games, there are Connections, Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee and Letter Boxed. If you want to get away from words, you can also try Tiles, a pattern matching game or Sudoku.

Maybe you just want to keep playing Strands instead of making it a daily headache? Then Strands Unlimited is the puzzle for you. There are some differences in the rules, but essentially it’s an almost endless stream of Strands puzzles to solve.

However, if you’re looking for something similar to Connections, Brits might want to fire up BBC iPlayer and play with Only Connect, released several years before the daily NYT brainteaser Connections, which host Victoria Coren Mitchell was. quick to point this out.

Puzzgrid is another Connections-style puzzle that’s closer to the BBC show than the NYT version, because you only have three minutes to solve them.

There is also Semantle, a puzzle game in which you have to reach the secret word by guessing its meaning. Spelling doesn’t matter in Semantle, as you must instead pay attention to the numerical value of your guesses, to plot your way to the answer.

Finally, if you’re interested in how the NYTimes puzzles are created, we have an interview with Jonathan Knight, head of games for the NYTimes.

Good luck solving today’s Strands!