Friday, April 18, 2025, is NYT Strands game #411. Its theme is “On the board.” Think of the pieces and units used in board games. Hints and the complete answer list follow, so stop here if you want to solve it yourself.
Hints for Strands game #411
The theme points to things you might move, place, or use while playing a board game. One extra nudge: the spangram is a two-word phrase for the category that includes Monopoly’s iron and dog tokens.
TechRadar lists these words for unlocking in-game hints: MILE, POSH, GAME, CHEERS, THINK, and CHEEK. Its guide says the ten-letter spangram touches the right edge of the grid on row three and the left edge on row five. Read TechRadar’s April 18 guide.
Strands answers for April 18
Spoilers below. The six theme words and the spangram are:
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- TILE
- DOMINO
- TOKEN
- CHECKER
- KNIGHT
- BATTLESHIP
- Spangram: GAME PIECES
Written without a space, the spangram is GAMEPIECES. The answers span familiar board-game components: tiles, dominoes, tokens and checkers, along with a chess knight and a battleship unit.
Why the theme is “On the board”
“On the board” points to the game board and the pieces or units associated with games played on one. ComicBook.com’s Monopoly clue—an iron or a dog—helps clarify that “pieces” means game tokens, not puzzle pieces. See ComicBook.com’s April 18 hints and answers.
Strands is a themed, word-search-style puzzle. In the answer guides, the spangram is described as the word or phrase that expresses the theme, while finding non-theme words can unlock hints. For this puzzle, the phrase GAME PIECES ties the six listed answers together.
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This answer set is for Friday, April 18, 2025, game #411—not a puzzle for a different April 18 date. The date, theme, spangram, and answers are also listed in the Strands Solution archive and Try Hard Guides’ Strands answers page.
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