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Are you looking for hints, charts and answers for Saturday series? You can find it here:
ForbesNYT “Strands” Tips & Answers for Friday, November 1 (No. 243) Written by Chris Holt
It’s time to start a new weekend, even if you’re not putting off work to do so.
How to play coasts
Published by the New York Times, Strands is a game based on the classic word search. It’s in beta at the moment, which means it will only continue if enough people play it every day.
There’s a new Strands game you can play every day. The game will present you with a six-by-eight grid of letters. The goal is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you’ll get an idea of what that topic is. When you find a topic 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. A spangram connects two opposite sides of a board. Although the subject words would not be a suitable name, SPANgram could be. When you find the extension chart, it will still be highlighted in yellow.
Be careful: you’ll need to be on your toes.
“Some topics are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, or synonyms or homophones,” notes The New York Times. “Just as you change the difficulty level of a Wordle puzzle over the course of a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy] Bennett plans to throw Strands an occasional curveball.
What is today’s threading tip?
We’ll give you a New York Times tip and then my own tip to push you further next:
Good on paper
And mine is:
Back to school
What are the answers to today’s branches?
Now we begin the answer part of the program, which is the spangram and the complete list. The spangram is:
Office supplies
Here’s where:
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Here are the rest of the answers:
governor
scissors
stapler
Printer
Pencils
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I’m not going to lie, I thought this was pretty hard. I think technically all of this has to do with paper, but I thought it was just marking the paper at first, and PRINTER didn’t occur to me. And the spangram? OFFICESUPPLIES rotating like a paperclip is actually quite funny, although it’s hard to find (I was actually looking for paperclip to be a word, but it wasn’t). How did you do?
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