Today’s Strand Tips and Answers for Saturday, May 4

Happy Star Wars Day! We are sure that all remaining Jedi Masters would be very impressed if you obtained the Strands Answers for Today, May 4.

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, “Horror”, refers to horror film titles.
• The Spangram starts at the last line, ends at the first line and has 10 letters spread over two words.
• In total, there are three six-letter, one nine-letter, and one 11-letter themed words to find.
• The nine-letter word is also the name of a spooky day in October.
• The 11 letter word is the name of a type of spirit that makes a lot of noise.

Strands Answers for May 4

Here are the Strands answers for today:

• PSYCHO
• SHOUT
• HOSTEL
• HALLOWEEN
• FIGHTING SPIRIT

Today’s Strands Spangram is called “SCARY MOVIES”.

Just like yesterday, I was able to solve the Spangram quickly, but the wide choice of horror films made it difficult to find precise answers! Somehow Poltergeist was the first answer I got, and then I had a bit of trouble finding the rest. I hope the clues above helped you get all the answers faster than I did today.

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 NYTimes puzzles are created, we have an interview with Jonathan Knight, head of games for the NYTimes.

Good luck solving today’s Strands!