Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for April 13 #406

Importance Score: 20 / 100 🔵

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Today’s NYT Strands puzzle presents a significant challenge. Even after solving it, identifying the spangram was crucial to understanding the connection between all answers, which still required some contemplation. If you require hints and solutions, continue reading.

For a detailed explanation of the Strands rules, refer to this guide.

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Strands Puzzle: Hints for Today

Today’s Strands Theme

The Strands puzzle theme for today is: Orange door hinge

For further assistance, consider this clue: It sounds like a color.

In-Game Hint Unlocks: Clue Words

The objective is to locate hidden words related to the puzzle’s theme. If you encounter difficulty, discovering any words can be helpful. Strands reveals a theme word hint for every three words of four or more letters found. Below are example words used to obtain hints; any words of four or more letters will serve the same purpose:

  • HELP
  • HELL
  • THEY
  • HEEL
  • SEAT
  • POSE
  • PLAT
  • PILE
  • COPE
  • COLE
  • ROLE
  • SHELF
  • LOAD
  • POLL
  • GREY

Strands Puzzle: Today’s Answers

These are the solutions that correspond to today’s theme. The puzzle’s aim is to uncover all theme-related words, including the spangram – a theme word that spans across the puzzle grid. Once all words are identified (initially, it was believed there were always eight, but it has been observed that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be utilized. The non-spangram answers are:

  • FLEW
  • QUEEN
  • HELLO
  • PILOT
  • HEIGHT
  • PLAQUE
  • SPREAD

(These words rhyme with the colors blue, green, yellow, violet, white, black, and red, respectively.)

Today’s Spangram Solution

Today’s Strands spangram is COLORRHYMES. To locate it, start with the C, positioned four letters down on the far left, and follow a winding path upwards, then downwards and across.


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