On the lookout for a distinct day?
A brand new NYT Strands puzzle seems at midnight every day on your time zone – which implies that some persons are at all times enjoying ‘as we speak’s recreation’ whereas others are enjoying ‘yesterday’s’. When you’re searching for Sunday’s puzzle as a substitute then click on right here: NYT Strands hints and solutions for Sunday, March 16 (recreation #378).
Strands is the NYT’s newest phrase recreation after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it is nice enjoyable. It may be tough, although, so learn on for my Strands hints.
Need extra word-based enjoyable? Then take a look at my NYT Connections as we speak and Quordle as we speak pages for hints and solutions for these video games, and Marc’s Wordle as we speak web page for the unique viral phrase recreation.
SPOILER WARNING: Details about NYT Strands as we speak is beneath, so do not learn on in the event you do not need to know the solutions.
NYT Strands as we speak (recreation #379) – trace #1 – as we speak’s theme
What’s the theme of as we speak’s NYT Strands?
• As we speak’s NYT Strands theme is… Sound switching
NYT Strands as we speak (recreation #379) – trace #2 – clue phrases
Play any of those phrases to unlock the in-game hints system.
- DINE
- TRICK
- STICK
- HELP
- BEEN
- GRIN
NYT Strands as we speak (recreation #379) – trace #3 – spangram letters
What number of letters are in as we speak’s spangram?
• Spangram has 11 letters
NYT Strands as we speak (recreation #379) – trace #4 – spangram place
What are two sides of the board that as we speak’s spangram touches?
First aspect: left, fifth row
Final aspect: proper, sixth row
Proper, the solutions are beneath, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands as we speak (recreation #379) – the solutions
The solutions to as we speak’s Strands, recreation #379, are…
- CROW
- CHIPS
- WELLS
- BEDDING
- BLUSHING
- STRICKEN
- SPANGRAM: SPOONERISMS
- My score: Laborious
- My rating: 3 hints
SPOONERISMS are a verbal error the place the speaker mixes up the letters of two or extra phrases in a phrase, typically with comedic outcomes.
Additionally they make for a really tough Strands and I’m positive I wasn’t the one one who struggled with the search – not least as a result of if you did not have the primary one you’d discover it robust to find its pair.
Spoonerisms typically happen when somebody is struggling to search out the proper phrases or talking in a rush and getting their phrases muddled – as an illustration a priest speaking about BEDDING WELLS or somebody delivering a BLUSHING CROW.
Again within the late twentieth century there was a British comic known as Stanley Unwin who grew to become well-known after turning Spoonerisms into an artform and creating his personal language (Unwinese) out of it.
He’d start by asking the viewers: “Are you all sitty comftybold two-square in your botty?” earlier than launching into his routine of nonsense verse and rambling tales, interspersed with cries of “deep pleasure”. He was a beautiful man.
Anyway, bought to go, I’m off to make a calming STRICKEN CHIPS sandwich for lunch.
How did you do as we speak? Let me know within the feedback beneath.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands solutions (Sunday, 16 March, recreation #378)
- RACE
- QUALIFYING
- PITS
- PODIUM
- PRACTICE
- SPRINT
- SPANGRAM: FORMULA ONE
What’s NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new-any-more phrase recreation, following Wordle and Connections. It is now a totally fledged member of the NYT’s video games steady that has been working for a yr and which could be performed on the NYT Video games web site on desktop or cellular.
I’ve bought a full information to how to play NYT Strands, full with ideas for fixing it, so examine that out in the event you’re struggling to beat it every day.