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Forbes
2 hours ago
- Forbes
NYT Strands Hints For Friday, August 22: Today's Spangram And Answers (Whodunit?)
Before today's Strands hints, spangram and answers, here are Thursday's: Hey, folks! Today's NYT Strands hints, spangram and answers for Friday, August 22 are coming right up. How To Play Strands The New York Times' Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It's available on the NYT website and in the NYT Games app alongside the likes of Wordle and Connections (which we also cover in daily guides at Forbes Gaming). 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 at least two sides of the board, but it may not start or end there. 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. Every letter is used once in one of the theme words and spangram. You can connect letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally, and it's possible to switch directions in the middle of a word. If you're playing on a touchscreen, double tap the last letter to submit your guess. If you find three valid words of at least four letters that are not part of the theme, you'll unlock the Hint button. Clicking this will highlight the letters that make up one of the theme words. Be warned: You'll need to be on your toes. Sometimes you'll need to fill the missing word(s) in a phrase. On other days, the game may revolve around synonyms or homophones. The difficulty will vary from day to day, and the puzzle creators will try to surprise you sometimes. What Is Today's Strands Hint? Scroll slowly! Just after the hint for today's Strands puzzle, I'll reveal what the first two letters for the spangram and the other words are. The official theme hint for today's Strands puzzle is... Whodunit? Need some extra help? Here's another hint... There's been a murder There are seven theme words to find today, including the spangram. What Are Today's NYT Strands Opening Letters? Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Strands opening letters. Here are the first two letters of every theme word in today's puzzle. They're ordered from left to right, then top to bottom by any letter of the word appearing for the first time: What Is Today's NYT Strands Spangram? Before I reveal the other the full word list, I'll first tell you the spangram and show you where that is on the grid. This is your final spoiler warning! Scroll slowly, because I'll tell you what all the theme words are immediately after showing you where the spangram is. Today's Strands spangram is... IT'S A MYSTERY Here's where you'll find it on the grid… What Are Today's NYT Strands Answers? Today's Strands theme words are... Here's what the completed grid looks like... Appropriately enough, this one wasn't much of a mystery. I found that word (mystery) first before realizing it had to be a part of the spangram. From there, I clocked STRANGER and realized I was looking for murder mystery archetypes. Pretty straightforward one today, I felt. I didn't use any hints and the spangram was the first theme word I found. That's the end of my current stint of Strands coverage. See you in two weeks! Follow my blog for more coverage of Strands, Connections and other word games as well as video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! If you want to chat about Strands, Connections and other stuff with like-minded folks, join my Discord server! Also, follow me on Bluesky! It's fun there.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Yahoo
Savannah Guthrie reveals the rules inside her 11-year-old daughter's phone usage ‘contract'
Savannah Guthrie is dialed into her young daughter's life. The 'Today' show co-anchor shared the phone usage contract she wrote for her 11-year-old daughter, Vale, during Wednesday's episode of 'Today with Jena & Friends.' 'My daughter got a little personal iCloud address and I actually drafted a contract for her to sign,' Guthrie said. 'I know that contract,' co-host Jenna Bush Hager recalled. 'It was basically like 'I know that mommy and daddy love me more than anything in the world,'' Guthrie explained. ''I know that mommy and daddy can read my texts. I know I wouldn't put in a text anything I don't want grandma and grandpa to see [or] that I wouldn't want to see on the front page of the New York Times.'' Vale only has an iCloud address and not an iPhone, Guthrie clarified. The mother of two insisted that even though Vale 'knows that I reserve the right to look at her texts,' she confessed that she doesn't monitor them. 'I trust her,' Guthrie added. The 53-year-old broadcaster added that she believed the word 'snooping' had a negative connotation and would rather call it 'looking' or 'parenting.' Guthrie publicly hoped that her kids would never have a phone but confessed that she might have a 'different' approach after they turn 16. The 'Today' co-anchor, who joined NBC's morning program in June 2011, shares two kids with her husband, Michael Feldman. Hager confessed that she was inspired to use a similar contract for her 9-year-old daughter, Poppy Louise Hager, when she turns 10. 'I need the contract again, unless I can find it in my texts,' Hager quipped to Guthrie. Texts addressed to Poppy are currently sent to Hager's phone, the 43-year-old television personality revealed. 'I get her text messages because she just gives everybody my cell phone [number],' she explained. 'Which is enough to drive a mother- I mean by the way she doesn't text that much because she doesn't have a phone but she'll use her iPad to be like 'hey' and somebody will text back 'hey' and I'm like, 'What is happening where I'm getting GiGi's Facetimes?'' Hager said her eldest daughter, Margaret Laura 'Mila' Hager, received an iCloud address when she was around 10 or 11 years old. Hager is the granddaughter of the late former President George H.W. Bush and the daughter of former President George W. Bush. She shares three kids, Mila, Poppy and Hal, with her husband Henry Hager, whom she met in 2004 when he was working for her father on his reelection campaign. Solve the daily Crossword
Vox
4 hours ago
- Vox
What kids don't want you to know about Gen Alpha culture
is a senior correspondent for Vox, where she covers American family life, work, and education. Previously, she was an editor and writer at the New York Times. She is also the author of four novels, including the forthcoming Bog Queen, which you can preorder here This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox's newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. As long as youth culture has existed, adults have been mystified, perplexed, and even threatened by it. At least once a week I think about the scene in A Hard Day's Night, a film released in 1964, in which the Beatles are being interviewed by clueless older journalists. ('What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing?' 'Arthur.') Given all this, every time I hear a claim like 'Gen Alpha doesn't laugh at farts,' I'm tempted to ask whether Gen Alpha collectively laughs at — or cries over, or has any sort of aesthetic experience with — anything. Is there a mass culture for kids and teens today? And if so, where does it come from, and what does it look like? When I posed these questions to people who study kids and culture, the answer I got was that while young people probably aren't watching the same things, a lot of them are craving similar experiences from the culture they consume, whether it's movies, YouTube, or, increasingly, video games. They want to feel safe, they want a sense of community, and they really, really want adults to leave them alone. Kids 'are still participating in culture,' said BJ Colangelo, a media theorist and analyst who has spoken about Gen Alpha trends. 'They just are making their own, and they're choosing not to share it with the rest of us.' Kids don't need mass media anymore Young people have never enjoyed being told what to like, and there's always been something organic and chaotic about their engagement with pop culture. At the same time, previous generations did have cultural arbiters and gatekeepers who controlled, to some degree, what they could access. For millennials and Gen Xers, 'magazines, MTV, and the radio were major outlets that were promoting and selling us what 'cool' is,' Colangelo told me. Young people could accept or reject what they were offered, 'but even with that choice, it was still being curated by editors, producers, DJs.' That was also true of culture aimed at younger kids, whose options were circumscribed by conglomerates like Nickelodeon and Disney. Parents also had a lot of involvement in — and veto power over — what kids watched. Your whole family could see what you watched on the TV in the living room, and parents could ban, or at least sneer with disapproval at, shows they found unwholesome. (I can't be the only millennial who looked forward to sleepovers as a time to watch R-rated movies after the grown-ups went to bed.) Today, media companies still try to manufacture hits, and sometimes they succeed. But kids no longer need to go through those companies to get their entertainment. And while parents can set screen time limits and put controls on children's phones or iPads, kids are notoriously great at getting around them. The result is a cultural landscape dominated by social media, one in which nearly half of younger kids' viewing time takes place on YouTube, TikTok, or other social platforms. You could certainly think of social media trends as shared cultural experiences within that landscape — indeed, many of the touchstones of youth culture that have received mainstream media coverage in recent years have been trends that managed to spill over into offline life, like the phenomenon of young people wearing suits to the film Minions: The Rise of Gru (incidentally, this trend appears to have been promoted by Universal Pictures, the studio that distributed Minions). Trends can be shared cultural experiences like the popular shows or movies of previous generations. The difference is that there are so many of them, and they pop up and flame out so quickly, said Jenna Jacobson, an associate professor of retailing at Toronto Metropolitan University who studies social media. 'Young people are experiencing a series of these micro mass events, which could be a sound or a meme, or a particular brand.' At the same time, 'social media allows many micro-communities to exist, which means that not everybody is seeing the same thing at the same time' — until something becomes big enough that it permeates everyone's feed, Jacobson said. Some of those big trends come from movies like Minions or Barbie, but a lot of them come from video games. It's no accident that A Minecraft Movie, one of the most popular films with Gen Alpha to date, is based on a massively popular game. In a survey of 10- to 24-year-olds last year by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA, only 12 percent reported not playing games. 'More than a lot of things, it is a unifying culture,' Yalda T. Uhls, founder and CEO of the center, told me. 'When my kid, at 21, was hanging out with a 6-year-old, they were playing Minecraft together.' What kids want from media now Young people today crave a sense of connection, Uhls said: 'In a world where kids are not allowed to run outside, there aren't as many spaces for them, or they're overscheduled, gaming is a place they can gather.' It's no surprise that a generation of kids who spent formative years in lockdowns and remote school would feel starved for community. To me, another desire was more striking: The top goal for Gen Alpha and Gen Z, according to research by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers, is to feel safe. But if part of what kids want is to be safe from us, maybe we need to pay attention to that. This took me aback a little because a lot of what I think of as archetypal Gen Alpha content — Skibidi toilet, for example — can feel jarring, choppy, and a little scary. But Uhls points out that young people in 2025 are facing down climate disaster, rampant inequality, and active shooter drills at their schools. For them, gaming, and media in general, can be a source of comfort. And kids don't just want to be safe from the very real threats to their lives and livelihoods, Colangelo told me. They also want to be safe from the constant evaluation and judgment of adults. Gen Alpha 'has come of age in the social media surveillance state that we are all suffering under,' Colangelo said. 'So many of them already have a digital footprint that they never consented to because their parents posted them online when they were babies.' They're drawn especially to sandbox games and open-world games like Roblox and Minecraft because those games allow them to 'make their own realities and mini games and communities away from the watchful eye of Big Brother,' Colangelo said. 'It allows them to have something that they are in complete control over.' A Minecraft Movie was such a success not just because it was based on a game, but because it was truly for kids, not for their parents. 'So much of the mainstream culture right now is based on nostalgia,' Colangelo said. 'It's stuff their parents, their siblings, or even their grandparents like. Minecraft is very much their thing.' Adults often deride young people today for craving safe spaces, being afraid of anything new, different, or difficult. But if part of what kids want is to be safe from us, maybe we need to pay attention to that. I don't want to be too much of a Pollyanna — kids, like adults, are certainly capable of wasting time watching AI slop or its equivalent (don't ask me about the video my kid loves in which a toddler is inexplicably stung by a caterpillar). It's also the case that if kids are spending all their time within their microcommunities or on their highly-curated feeds, they're less likely to discover new artists or ideas, Colangelo pointed out. At the same time, a lot of kids' media habits can be understood as bids for autonomy, Colangelo said. They're really 'against things that are being force fed to them.' That's scary for adults who, sometimes understandably, want some say over what kids see and hear and play. But it's also a message about what we've taken away from a generation of kids, and what we might need to give back. What I'm reading The Department of Health and Human Services has said that its upcoming second MAHA report will include solutions for improving kids' health. But a draft report obtained by the New York Times does not include restrictions on pesticides, which experts say are necessary to reverse the increase in children's chronic disease. Oklahoma will require teachers from California and New York (and only those two states) to take a certification test showing they know 'the biological differences between females and males,' among other topics, before they can teach in Oklahoma. (The state's superintendent of schools previously announced that all teachers would need to incorporate the Bible into curricula.) Wired asked a group of kids what they think of AI. My favorite is Leo Schodorf, who tries to be polite to ChatGPT because, 'if they take over the world, and they're destroying everyone, then maybe they'll be like, this guy says please and thank you.' My little kid has been enjoying Zog, about a dragon who becomes an ambulance, kind of. Also, journalist Alyssa Rosenberg has started a new Substack all about children's books, and you can check it out here.
