Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram, Answers: Friday, November 21 (Heard At The Board Meeting)
Looking for Thursday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here:
We have two strands in a row about various types of chatter, though this one is more annoying than yesterday’s.
How To Play Strands
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’s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.
You’ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram links two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.
Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes.
“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy] Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”
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What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
Time to do the NYT hint and then my own hint after that:
Heard at the Board Meeting
And mine is:
Irritating Jargon
Today’s NYT Strands Opening Letters
Here are the first two letters of all the words if you don’t want the entire thing just yet.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Now we begin the answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:
CORPORATE SPEAK
Here it is on the page, and read on:
The answers are:
- LIAISE
- ALIGN
- DISRUPT
- IDEATE
- SCALE
- PIVOT
If this was a little while ago we would probably have BLOCKCHAIN or METAVERSE in there somewhere, but those are a little more situation specific. These days AI would almost certainly be in there, but that’s either two letters, or its ARTIFICIAL INTELLGIENCE which is long even for a spangram. Rather, these are more general, annoying words that often mean nothing.
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