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ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ tips, spangrams and answers for Monday, October 14By means of Paul Tassi

Welcome to Tuesday’s Strands, where we might just set a record if I calculate today’s puzzle correctly.

How to play strands

The New York Times Strands Puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s currently in beta, which means it will only survive if enough people play it every day.

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

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

Be warned: you need to be alert.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank sentences. They can also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” notes The New York Times. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, (Wordle and Strands editor Tracy) Bennett plans to throw curveballs with Strands solvers every now and then.”

What’s today’s Strands hint?

We’ll start with the NYT hint and then I’ll do one of my own to help you along. The NYT hint is:

Beast mode

And mine is:

No training

That might help you on your way.

What are today’s answers?

Time to move on to actual answers, starting with what I think may be the longest spangram I’ve ever seen. It is:

CREATURE FEATURE

And it’s written here on the board:

And the rest of the answers are:

• HER
• HORN
• RESILIENCE
• DISH
• WING
• TAIL
• SHELL

Okay, most of these are pretty good, but I mean, we all have hair, right? I think FUR would have been too short. But yes, I do think that CREATURE FEATURE might be the longest spangram we’ve ever had, because that’s 15 letters in itself and takes up a large part of the puzzle. I found a creature early on, but I couldn’t figure out the rest of it until I understood with fewer letters that it would be a rhyming word. Nice that they made that fit.

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