Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Friday, September 27

Looking for Thursday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here.

Today’s Strands will test your knowledge of history in a very specific way. Let’s see how you fare.

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?

The NYT will give an official hint and then I will make me own to help you out further. The official hint is:

Medieval marvel

And my hint is:

Man the catapults!

You probably get where this is going now.

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

The spangram is first and the rest of the answers will follow after that. The spangram is:

CASTLE

And that is here on the board:

The rest of the answers are:

• WALL
• MOAT
• COURTYARD
• DRAWBRIDGE
• KEEP
• TOWER
• TURRET

They managed to fit a lot in there, including DRAWBRDIGE, which is impressive. The one that took me the longest was COURTYARD but I guess yeah, essentially all castles do have one of those in the middle. Speaking of CASTLE, that is literally the shortest spangram you can have on the board, just six letters, which does not happen all that often. How did you do today?

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