NYT ‘Strands’ Today: Hints And Answers For Wednesday, March 12

ByPaul Tassi

, Senior Contributor.

Strands

Looking for Tuesday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:

Puzzling situation for me today, no pun intended, where I have completed the entire puzzle understand the answers and how they relate to the spangram, but not the clue at all.

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in beta for now, which means it’ll only stick around if enough people play it every day.

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 two opposite sides of the board. 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.

Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy]

The hint today from the NYT today is the thing I still don’t get even after completing the puzzle. I did a different one after that I think is better.

Bearing Gifts

Mine is:

Young Potential

That should get you started.

The spangram is below and the rest of the answers will branch off from that after that.

PRODIGY

And where you find it:

Strands

The answers are:

Strands

Bearing gifts? I don’t get it. I get these describe someone “gifted” but it’s a really weird clue. The rest of these pretty clearly relate to the clue, albeit I cannot remember I heard anyone says Knack or Chops oud loud. Or Flair, outside of the Office Space movie. Very strange puzzle today, and if you get the “bearing” part of the clue, please explain it to me.

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