NEW ‘Strands’ tip, spangram and answers for Sunday 26 January

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ForbesNEW ‘Strands’ tip, spangram and answers for Saturday 25th JanuaryBy Paul Tassi

Interesting puzzle game today that will test your knowledge of a certain type of science that you may or may not be familiar with, which can make this easy or hard.

How to play strings

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in beta for now, which means it’ll only stick around if enough people play it every day.

There is a new game of threads to be played every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The goal is to find a group of words that have something in common and you get an idea of ​​what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.

You will also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The span frame connects two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spanframe can be a proper name. When you find the span, it will remain highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: You have to be on your toes.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank sentences. They can also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” notes the New York Times. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week (Wordle and Strand’s editor Tracy), Bennett plans to throw Strand’s Solvers curveballs every once in a while.”

What is today’s tip?

The official NYT tip is smarter than the hint I’ll give you below, but I’ll give you the extra boost:

Ore, they say

Mine is:

Minerals

Yes, mine is a bit more straightforward there

What is today’s strict response?

The spangram is below, and then we’ll move on to the full list of answers, so spoilers ahead:

Pure metal

And where to find it:

And the answer list:

  • Titanium
  • IRON
  • ALUMINUM
  • Nickel
  • Cobalt
  • Cadmium

So a few common metals, a few rarer ones like cadmium. I had trouble looping around the letters for aluminum for a minute there, as the path through was just a touch confusing. There is one lot of metals that could have gone in here, so even if you know a bunch, finding them would be a bit of a challenge depending on what you were looking for.

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