NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Saturday, October 25

by · Forbes

Looking for Sunday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:

Time for your weekend Strands in what I would consider a pretty easy puzzle, but admittedly it did take a few hints for me to get started.

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.”

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What Is Today’s Strands Hint?

Time to do the NYT hint and then my own hint after that:

Quite a transformation!

And mine is:

From one to another, monstrously

What Are Today’s Strands Answer Hints?

Here are the first two letters of each answer to get you started

  • SK
  • WE
  • VA
  • CH

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Now we begin the actual answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:

SHAPESHIFTERS

Here it is on the page, and read on:

The answers are:

  • SKINWALKER
  • WEREWOLF
  • VAMPIRE
  • CHANGELING

Not exactly too much room for other words there, as both those and the spangram are quite long. I would have probably put a “hyde” in there, if we’re doing famous, often movie-based transformations, but I suppose the others are more well-known. And actually fit in the puzzle. The best shapeshifter? Mystique from X-Men, obviously.

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