Today’s Strands Tips and Answers for Sunday, May 12

End the end of your weekend in style by solving the Strands answers for today, May 12.

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, “Perfect Picture” refers to films that have won a prestigious trophy.
• The Spangram starts at the last line, ends at the first line and has 12 letters spread over two words.
• In total, there are two five-letter theme words, one eight-letter theme word, and two nine-letter theme words to find.
• The Eight Letters Movie is a South Korean black drama/comedy directed by Bong Joon Ho.
• One of the Nine Letters films is set during the time of the Roman Empire and stars Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.

Strands Answers for May 12

Here are the Strands answers for today:

• ACCIDENT
• ROCKY
• PARASITE
• PROJECTOR
• GLADIATOR

Today’s Strands Spangram is “OSCAR WINNERS”.

Although the movie theme should help most people practice, I always find these types of Strands quizzes to be the most difficult because there are so many to choose from! I hope the clues above have helped you narrow down your options a little.

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!