Want to put your brain in gear? Friday? Then we can help with the Strands answers for today, May 24.
If you’re new to Strands, your goal with this particular New York Times daily puzzle is to find all the theme words and a “Spangram” in a word search-style grid. All regular words relate to this Spangram, a word or phrase that you should also find in the word search.
To help you refine the theme and guess the related words, a theme sentence is provided. With this clue, you then have to find all the correct words related to it. The only catch is that your letters have to be next to each other, so it’s easier to find words than with a regular word search as you can switch in any direction, but this also makes it harder to find the exact theme words, because there are so many options.
Fortunately, there is a hint system. For each word you submit that is not a theme word or spangram, you will make progress towards unlocking a hint. Once you’ve unlocked one, you can press the hint button. The outline of the correct theme word is highlighted.
It’s also important to note that Strands is currently in beta, so some of these rules may change in the future after full release.
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Tips for today’s Strands answer
Rather than jumping straight to the answers, you may only need a few clues to find all the theme words and the Spangram, so here are some tips for today’s Strands:
- Today’s theme tip ‘Raise a glass’ refers to cocktail names.
- The Spangram starts on the first line, ends on the last line and is nine letters long.
- In total there is one four-letter, three six-letter, one eight-letter and one nine-letter theme word.
- One of the six-letter words starts with ‘G’ and is a cocktail with gin, lime juice and sugar.
- The four-letter word starts with ‘S’ and is a cocktail that also describes a sour taste.
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Here are the Strands answers for today:
- PICKLES
- MOJITO
- SPRITZ
- GIMLET
- DAIQUIRI
- MARGARITA
Today’s Strands Spangram is ‘COCKTAILS’.
The only word in today’s Strands that freaked me out a bit was ‘GIMLET’, as it’s the only cocktail I haven’t tried before on this list! If you’re also on the fence about your cocktails, then hopefully the directions above have also helped you get today’s Strands answers.
What to play after Strands
You may have heard of this game called Wordle? It’s pretty good, we think it might stick. If you’ve already solved that today, The New York Times does offer other games. When it comes to word-based games, there’s Connections, the Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee and Letter Boxed. If you fancy a break from words, you can also try Tiles, a motif matching game, or Sudoku.
Maybe you just want to keep playing Strands instead of turning it into a daily puzzle? Then Strands Unlimited is the puzzle for you. There are a few differences in the rules, but it’s really just an almost endless stream of Strands puzzles to solve.
However, if you’re looking for something similar to Connections, people in the UK might want to fire up the BBC iPlayer and play along with Only Connect, which came out many years before the daily NYT Connections puzzle, which was hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. quickly point out.
Puzzgrid is another Connections-style puzzle that’s closer to the BBC show than the NYT version, as you only have three minutes to solve them.
There is also Semantle, a game puzzle where you have to find the secret word by guessing its meaning. Spelling doesn’t count in Semantle, because you must instead pay attention to the numerical value of your guesses to map your path to the answer.
Finally, if you’re interested in how the NYTimes puzzles are made, we have an interview with Jonathan Knight, Head of Games for The NYTimes
Good luck solving today’s Strands!