Strands it’s back Tuesday with a new theme and Spangram to solve, and we can help you with the Strands Answers for Today, April 23.
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 topical clue “As Easy as Pie” refers to the items you use to make a dessert pie.
- The Spangram starts at the last line, ends at the first line and has 11 letters.
- In total, there is one four-letter, four five-letter, one six-letter, and one seven-letter theme word to be found in today’s Strands.
- One of the five-letter words is a nut often used in an American-style pie.
- Another five-letter word is commonly used for pour over sweet pancakes.
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Strands Answers for April 23
Here are the Strands answers for today:
- SALT
- FLOUR
- SYRUP
- PECAN NUTS
- SUGAR
- BUTTER
- VANILLA
Today’s Strands Spangram is “INGREDIENTS”.
I didn’t find today’s Strands too difficult (thanks to my many years of eating apple pies), but ‘PECANs’ baffled me for a while, as it is a more common in America than in the UK. I hope the above clues also helped you get 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 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!