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Forbes
3 days ago
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NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Wednesday, June 4th
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Tuesday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Hello dearest Strandistarians. I'm once again taking over for my colleague Paul Tassi today in our quest to uncover words in your daily Strands puzzle. Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: Monster quest Hint: Sasquatch type beasts. Clue: Nessie, for instance. Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: CRYPTIDS Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Screenshot: Erik Kain Cryptids—today's spangram—are species that are rumored to exist but cannot be proven scientifically. It's possible that a KRAKEN is somewhere in the depths of the ocean, however unlikely, or that BIGFOOT roams the wilderness, perhaps befriending a JACKALOPE or two. I got a couple of these pretty quickly, but was pretty stumped for awhile. YETI wasn't too bad, but even though I suspected JACKALOPE it took me a good bit to find it as well as MOTHMAN. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
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NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Tuesday, June 3rd
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Looking for Monday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: It's not my normal day for Strands but my colleague Paul Tassi has found himself indisposed. I'm hopping in for the night because somebody has to help uncover these words! Let's solve this Strands! Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: That's proprietary! FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Hint: When a brand is so popular it becomes a noun. Clue: Think tissues, hot tubs and the like. Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: TRADEMARKED Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Strands I found the first couple words instantly today: KLEENEX and JACUZZI right at the top, and then TRADEMARKED right after that. The last few were trickier. This was also somewhat educational. If you didn't know CHAPSTICK was a brand, for instance. Or POPSICLE. These are the types of trademarked words that are just so commonplace in the English language, they become interchangeable with the product itself. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Forbes
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers For Fri day, May 9th
In case you missed Thursday's NYT Mini Crossword puzzle, you can find the answers here: We've come to the end of the line for your humble NYT Mini Crossword guide. I sign off for the next two weeks, though you'll be in good hands with my colleagues, Kris Holt and Paul Tassi. I'll be back at the end of May, and will be penning my Wordle guides and various other puzzle assists in the meantime. Have a lovely weekend! Let's solve this Mini, shall we? The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword, and unlike its larger sibling, it's free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you'll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives. If you need a little help solving the Mini Crossword as fast as possible, read on for all of today's answers. Spoilers ahead! 1 — Humpty Dumpty in many illustrations — EGG 4 — Cartoon bear who wears a red shirt and no pants — POOH 6 — Collection of world maps — ATLAS 8 — Counterpart of 'adios' — HOLA 9 — [See circled letters] — WOW 1 — Clean water org — EPA 2 — Subculture with black clothing — GOTH 3 — 'When they ___' (start of a memorable Michelle Obama line) — GOLOW 5 — Angel topper — HALO 7 — It has sharp teeth — SAW Today's Mini Credit: Erik Kain This was an interesting puzzle because of the additional circles along the middle three rows. Cobbling those together you get OOHLALA which is the hint you need for 9-Across, WOW. A lot of these were easy, which made getting to that point easy. Everyone knows Humpty Dumpty is an egg who falls and shatters into a million little pieces, much to the dismay of the king, who bafflingly sends both his men and their horses to put him back together again. Not sure a horse's hooves are well-suited to the task. Of all the various anthropomorphic talking bears out there, few wear pants, but only one wears a red shirt: Winnie-the-POOH! And an ATLAS is very obviously a collection of world maps. You don't really need to know much Spanish to get HOLA as the yin to ADIOS's yang, either. And by the time you've plugged all these in you basically have the downs. This one took me 1:15. How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder If you also play Wordle, I write guides about that as well. You can find those and all my TV guides, reviews and much more here on my blog. Thanks for reading!
Forbes
03-05-2025
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NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Sunday, May 4th
Connections hints and answers are here. Credit: The New York Times Looking for Saturday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: Beginning this month, my colleague Paul Tassi and I are taking over the weekend desk for Connections guides from our colleague Kris Holt, who will still be handling weekday guides. I'm excited to expand my puzzling endeavors to this extra challenging, and sometimes incredibly frustrating, game. I'll also have to come up with a nickname for you Connections puzzle-solvers. I call my Wordle players Wordlers and my Strands players some version of Strandistarians or Strandistas (etc). Maybe Connectioneers will suffice (as in Musketeers) unless I come up with something better. Today is May the 4th, which is Star Wars Day (because May the 4th be with you) and today's Connections has some words that just might be from a galaxy far, far way. Let's get right to it! You can skip the next section and jump right to today's hints if you already know how to play. Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here. The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there. There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can't just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together. You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you're close, it will tell you that you're one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. Connections May 4th Credit: NYT Today's Bonus Clue: You'll notice some words that call to mind Star Wars in this grid (maybe calling to mind a Sith lord, a smuggler, a Wookiee and a bounty hunter). They are a trap. Do not lump them together! Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are: I actually got this one pretty quickly today, mostly because I knew that the Star Wars words – DARTH, SOLO, BOBA and CHEWY – had to be a red herring. Once I spotted BOBA I just looked for other Boba Tea words and found SUGAR, MILK and TEA pretty quickly. That took care of those. After this, I tried to think of words with multiple meanings. NOODLE has several different meanings and as soon as I imagined noodling on a guitar, I realized that SOLO would work . . . and JAM and SHRED. Sure enough, the guitar player in me figured this one out. The purples took a bit longer, but I basically just took four words that seemed a bit off, not really fitting in with anything else, and grouped those. DARTH, GENUS, CARS and BLUTO? I didn't know how they fit together but I knew they were different from the rest of the words. Sure enough, these were actually planets – Pluto, Mars, Earth and Venus – and this left me with only yellows. Not too shabby! According to Connections Bot, this was trickier than recent connections, at 4/5 Difficulty. Here's the stats: Connections Bot Screenshot: Erik Kain How did you do on today's Connections? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
Forbes
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
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NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Thursday, April 10th
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Looking for Wednesday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: The week is rushing by and my time as your fearless Strands puzzle-guide is quickly coming to an end. Just one more after today and then I'm off for two weeks, though you'll be in good hands with my colleagues Paul Tassi and Kris Holt. It's lovely outside, and I need to get out there and get a little sun, take my dogs into the woods, bask in the warmth of this blossoming spring. So let's get right to it and uncover some words! Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: What's the buzz? FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Hint: Could be referring to a Transformer, but more likely an insect. Clue: Anatomical vocabulary Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: BUMBLEBEE Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Today's grid looked pretty tough at first, and then I saw the word STING. That didn't work, but just below it I saw the word BEE, and working backwards I came across the spangram before any other word: BUMBLEE. I went back to STING and found STINGER and from here everything started to come together: WINGS, TONGUE, ABDOMEN, THORAX and finally ANTENNAE. Sometimes you just see the words, even though today's wasn't exactly easy, though the theme was pretty straightforward. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
