Strands

[Northern_Brewer]

Strands #280
“A timely theme”




I know it's a USA game, and that means the words often don't mean much to me. I'm thinking of stopping it, and just doing Wordle

Not sure how you could say that of today's, there was one word that had a USian spelling but otherwise it could easily have been a British game, it was just a bit of a dull one today.

Strands #280
“A timely theme”

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #281
“Quiet at first”

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Again, today's was fine other than there being multiple routes for the end of the spangram, only one of which actually made it to the other side.
Also relatively easy Connections and Wordle, and a stunningly easy medium Sudoku.

Strands #281
“Quiet at first”

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #282
“Something to see”

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Again - it was fine, not the most exciting but fine. As always the corners, and in particular the bottom right corner, are good places to start, which then gives you an idea what the theme is.

Strands #282
“Something to see”

 

[YeastFace]

You're all much better at this than I am:

Strands #282
“Something to see”

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Pretty easy one today, people can't complain about the USiness apart from one spelling. Should have looked for the spangram after the first one really.

Strands #283
“Board certified”

 

[YeastFace]

Strands #283
“Board certified”



American spelling threw me on the last

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #283
“Board certified”

 

[matt.]

Strands #284
“Shape and bake”

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #284
“Shape and bake”

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Bit of a dull one, although it was a good Spangram shape. It's always good to try and get the Spangram early, knowing that it has to touch opposite sides means that there aren't too many places for it to go, and it's always relatively long and divides up the board so the other answers get quite constrained once you've got it.

Strands #284
“Shape and bake”

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I was worried about this one as I think I knew two of the potential answers, and neither of them were in it. So don't panic if your ignorance is as great as mine, it was just a question of find the Spangram and then look for words in what was left...

Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”

 

[matt.]

Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”



The only swift I know has feathers...

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”

 

[YeastFace]

Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #286
“Nothing can stop me!”

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It was pretty easy to find the first part of the Spangram, which then led to the rest of the Spangram, and it was one of those where the Spangram was constrained to a very small set of words so it was pretty easy after that.

Strands #287
“Moonlighting”

 

[rbunsen]

Strands #287
“Moonlighting”

 

[YeastFace]

Strands #289
“It's lit!”