NYT 'Strands' Spangram, Answers And Hints For Wednesday, May 14

ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Tuesday, May 13By Paul Tassi

Today’s Strands wants you to get down and get funky with it, and it will require a certain subsect of musical knowledge to grab all the answers today, including the tricky Spangram.

How To Play Strands

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in beta for now, which means it’ll only stick around if enough people play it every day.

There’s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.

You’ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram links two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy]

Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”

What Is Today’s Strands Hint?

First we will start with the official hint from the NYT and then I will give you one of my own that I think will help you along further. The official hint is:

Boogie Woogie Woogie

And mine is:

Group dancing

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Now we move on to the answers for the day and spoilers will follow, so be careful. We will start with the spangram and move on to the full list. The spangram is:

LINEDANCE

And here’s where that lies on the board:

And the answers are:

MACARENA

HUSTLE

WOBBLE

FOOTLOOSE

LOCOMOTION

I found this one pretty hard, not just because it was difficult to remember a whole lot of multi-person dances as my generation simply does not do these, but also because a lot of these are very long and difficult to guess at even if you have hints. And are all of these technically line dances? I guess different sorts of line arrangements, but still, this was tricky, and certain generations may be better at it than others.

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