Need help with Strands today? We can help you get those elusive topic words and the Spangram with the Strands Answers for Today, April 20.
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 “Walk This Way” refers to different ways and speeds of walking.
- The Spangram starts at the third line, ends at the sixth line and has 10 letters.
- In total, there is one four-letter, three five-letter, two six-letter, and one seven-letter theme word to be found in today’s Strands.
- One of the six letter words can be used to describe a walk through something difficult and begins on the right side of the seventh row and ends with the “E” on the right side of the last row.
- The seven-letter word describes a slow, leisurely walk and begins on the left side of the sixth row and ends in the middle “R” of the last row.
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Strands Answers for April 20
Here are the Strands answers for today:
- HIKING
- STRUT
- AMBLE
- MARCH
- PAINFUL WALK
- TO STROLL
- TO STROLL
Today’s Strands Spangram is “PEDESTRIAN”.
A nice, simple connection between the theme clue and the actual words of today, but we can see “TRUDGE” and “SAUNTER” tripping up some people today (pun entirely intended). I hope the clues above helped you get today’s Strands answers!
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 it’s essentially a near-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!