Strands it’s back Tuesday with a new theme and Spangram to solve, and we can help you with the Strands Answers for Today, May 21.
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 clue “At the Bar” refers to common tabs and shortcuts you might find on a browser or web application.
- The Spangram starts on the first line, ends on the last line and has nine letters spread over two words.
- In total, there are three four-letter, one five-letter, one six-letter, one seven-letter, and one nine-letter theme words to find.
- The six-letter word starts with “W” and that’s what you look at to see the exterior of buildings.
- The nine-letter word starts with “F” and is the American spelling for something you like over others of the same genre.
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Strands Answers for May 21
Here are the Strands answers for today:
- HELP
- DEPOSIT
- TO MODIFY
- TOOLS
- WINDOW
- HISTORY
- FAVORITES
Today’s Strands Spangram is “MENU ITEMS”.
Yet another Strands that left me completely confused about the right theme, even when I received the Spangram. After getting “FILE”, I thought it might have something to do with practicing law, then “MENU” made me think it was things found in restaurant bars, and then I was just confused… I hope the clues above helped you solve today’s strands. faster than me!
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!