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Hints for the April 16 Strands puzzle
Try the clues in order to avoid seeing the full answer set too soon.
- Theme clue: “Fore!”
- Gentle hint: Think of equipment used for a sport played on a course.
- More specific hint: One club has a flat head for rolling the ball toward the target; another has an angled head to lift it over an obstacle.
- Final nudge: Take a swing.
Answers and spangram
Spoilers below: the theme is golf clubs. The spangram is GOLFCLUBS.
The seven theme words are:
- CHIPPER
- DRIVER
- IRON
- PUTTER
- UTILITY
- WEDGE
- WOOD
How Strands works
Strands is a themed word-search game played on a 6-by-8 letter grid. Connect adjacent letters horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to form words. The spangram expresses the theme and stretches between opposite sides of the board. Find three non-theme words of at least four letters to earn a hint that highlights a theme word.
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Which puzzle number is it?
The date is the clearest way to identify this puzzle. Try Hard Guides and the StrandsSolution archive label the April 16 puzzle #409, while Forbes labels its Wednesday, April 16 guide #408 despite listing the same theme and answers. The numbering is therefore inconsistent across those guides.
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