New York Times Strands Clues and Solutions for April 17
If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times’ elevated word-search game. Strands requires players to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be formed from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal — and can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a unique word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
By providing an opaque hint and not supplying the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing experience that takes a little longer to play than its other games. If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.
Today’s NYT Strands hint for the theme: THE movies. The words are seen in theaters.
Today’s theme plainly explained: These words are movie titles that start with “The.” The NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal? Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal. Today’s spangram answer is “Titles.”
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