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ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Hints and Answers for Friday, November 1 (#243)By means of Kris Holt

Time for a fresh Strands to start the weekend, even if you don’t postpone work to do so.

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 do the NYT hint and then my own hint to help you out:

Good on paper

And mine is:

Back to school

What are today’s answers?

Now we start with the answer part of the program, which is the spangram and the complete list, the spangram is:

OFFICE DELIVERIES

Here’s where that is:

Here are the rest of the answers:

RULER

PAIR OF SCISSORS

STAPLER

PRINTER

PENCILS

I’m not going to lie, I found this one pretty hard. I guess technically this is all about paper, but I thought it looked like paper at first, and PRINTER didn’t occur to me. And the spangram? OFFICE PARTS walking around like a paperclip is actually quite funny, although hard to find (I actually looked to see if paperclip was a word, but it wasn’t). How did you do it?

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