Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for April 29 #422

On the lookout for the most up-to-date Strands reply? Click on right here for our day by day Strands hints, in addition to our day by day solutions and hints for The New York Occasions Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports activities Version puzzles.

Todays NYT Strands puzzle is a enjoyable one. The spangram is a puzzler till you make the connection, and the clues are all so completely different from one another it is robust at first to determine how they relate. In case you want hints and solutions, learn on.

I am going into depth in regards to the guidelines for Strands on this story. 

In case you’re on the lookout for at this time’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword solutions, you possibly can go to CNET’s NYT puzzle hints web page.

Learn extra: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Hardest Puzzles So Far

Trace for at this time’s Strands puzzle

At the moment’s Strands theme is: I’ve acquired you coated.

If that does not make it easier to, this is a clue: Laborious protecting outer half.

Clue phrases to unlock in-game hints

Your objective is to search out hidden phrases that match the puzzle’s theme. In case you’re caught, discover any phrases you possibly can. Each time you discover three phrases of 4 letters or extra, Strands will reveal one of many theme phrases. These are the phrases I used to get these hints, however any phrases of 4 or extra letters that you just discover will work:

• SLOT, LITE, COAT, TACO, LUNE, DOLL, DILL, MOLL, TALE, TOTE, TOTES, TOES, ROLL

Solutions for at this time’s Strands puzzle

These are the solutions that tie into the theme. The objective of the puzzle is to search out all of them, together with the spangram, a theme phrase that reaches from one aspect of the puzzle to the opposite. While you’ve acquired all of them (I initially thought there have been at all times eight however discovered that the quantity can range), each letter on the board shall be used. Listed here are the nonspangram solutions:

• WALNUT, NUCLEUS, NAUTILUS, TORTOISE, ARMADILLO

At the moment’s Strands spangram

At the moment’s Strands spangram is SHELLS.  To search out it, begin with the S that is 5 letters down on the far proper row, and wind throughout.

Hardest Strands puzzles

Listed here are a number of the Strands subjects I’ve discovered to be the hardest in latest weeks.

#1: Dated slang, Jan. 21. Possibly you did not even use this lingo when it was cool. Hardest phrase: PHAT.

#2: Thar she blows! Jan.15. I suppose marine biologists may ace this one. Hardest phrase: BALEEN or RIGHT. 

#3: Off the hook, Jan. 9. Much like the Jan. 15 puzzle in that it helps to know so much about sea creatures. Sorry, Charlie. Hardest phrase: BIGEYE or SKIPJACK