Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers
Credit: New York Times
Looking for some extra help with today’s extra tricky NYT Strands puzzle? Look no further. Below, find some extra clues and hints to help you uncover every word on today’s grid. It’s Thor’s Day, which is a bit of a clue for today’s “Provinces of the Pantheon” theme. Pantheon being a gods and demigods only social club, as it were. Let’s uncover some words!
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How To Play Strands
Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme.
Spoilers ahead.
Today’s Strands Hints
Read on for today’s theme and some hints to help you uncover today’s words.
Today’s Theme: Provinces of the Pantheon
Hint: Normally I give the first two letters of each word as a clue. Today, I’ll do something a bit different. Each word corresponds to the following mythological entities:
- Zeus, Jupiter and Thor
- Athena, Minerva and Odin
- Aphrodite, Venus and Freyja
- Hades, Pluto and Hel
- Hera, Juno and Frigg
- Demeter, Ceres and Sif
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Today’s spangram is: DOMAINS
Here’s the full list of words:
- THUNDER
- WISDOM
- LOVE
- UNDERWORLD
- MARRIAGE
- HARVEST
Here’s the completed Strands grid:
Today’s Strands
Screenshot: Erik Kain
Today’s Strands Breakdown
I am such a nerd for all things mythological, I was quite pleased with today’s Strands. It was also a bit of fun to list all the gods associated with each DOMAIN (today’s spangram) though the Norse gods don’t quite line up to each of these as well as the Roman and Greek, the Romans having pretty much copied the Greek myths and pantheon in one of the most egregious examples of cultural appropriation in history.
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