Strands by New York Times answers for today, July 7, 2024. Strands is the newest addition to the New York Times Games Portfolio and it is edited by Christina Iverson today that this article is published. The theme of the game is displayed to the player at the start of the game, the theme is connected with something else called ‘The spangram’ and it portrays the puzzle’s theme. The spangram must touch both extremities of the grid and is highlighted in yellow. The spangram may contain two words.
Theme
Not just black and white
The spangram for today's puzzle is GRAYSCALE. The theme words are: GRAPHITE, FLINT, STEEL, PLATINUM, CHARCOAL and SLATE. The players need to find all of these words in the grid to solve the puzzle. Scanning the letter grid, I found my first word SLATE at the bottom right corner. Then I spotted coal above it but it wasn't the answer. Instead, CHARCOAL turned out to be one of today's answers.
This is when I spotted the word GRAY above it and connected the letters to form today's Spangram which is GRAYSCALE. Finding the remaining words was fairly simple. I found PLATINUM, STEEL, FLINT, in order to wrap up today's puzzle.
If you have scanned this far you are probably ready to see the answers. So let's take a look at today's Strands theme words in Strands: SLATE, CHARCOAL, PLATINUM, GRAPHITE, STEEL, FLINT. Today's theme was “Not just black and white,” and true to it I found the blue and yellow colors in a jiffy. Seconds after scanning the letter grid I found my first word SLATE at the bottom right corner. Then, I spotted coal above it but it wasn't the answer. Instead, CHARCOAL turned out to be one of today's answers.
This is when I spotted the word GRAY above it and connected the letters to form today's Spangram which is GRAYSCALE. Finding the remaining words was fairly simple. I found PLATINUM, STEEL, FLINT in order to wrap up today's puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers can be found here if you need them.
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