Need help with today's NYT Strands? Today's theme, “Think about it,” may seem puzzling on the surface, but finding the relevant answers is quite easy once you understand them
Below are some helpful hints for Strand #221 and the answers when you need them We will start with the hints and then lead you to the full answer to Strand #221
WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #221
The official theme for NYT Strands #221 is “Let's Think About It”
And here's an unofficial hint from me: “This is getting pretty meta”
If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that give you valuable hint tokens:
Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctive words Today it starts with a “P” and ends with an “S”
Scroll down to find out what it is
PUZZLES
Now, what is the answer to the strand in today's game #221?
Drumroll, please
Spangram was PUZZLES
Strands #221
“Think about it”
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Hello Strands fans! Unlike yesterday, today's Strands was totally easy It helped that there were two “Z's” in the middle of the board and a spangram of PUZZLES right off the bat
The topic that those of us who play Strands and Wordle daily are well-versed in is puzzles, and this one was completed in record time
CROSSWORD was just above the top right spangram, but what was to the left of it was not immediately deciphered So I decided to leave it there until I could figure out how many words were hidden there
So I turned to the bottom half of the board and started with the third “Z” on the board; JIGSAW is directly below it, and when these two combine, JUMBLE's path becomes obvious This leaves only SUDOKU in the lower half
This made deciphering a little easier, since we now knew that there was only one answer left in the upper left After a bit of brainstorming, I realized that the “Y” was near the beginning, not the end as I had previously assumed, so I pieced together the CRYPTOGRAM to complete this rather meta puzzle
Reading later than this? The full article on Strand's solution to yesterday's game #220 can be found here
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