Here we are then with another edition of the NYT’s new(ish) Strands puzzle. It’s not quite as popular as Wordle or Connections just yet, but it’s great fun and could easily reach the same levels in time.
Below, you’ll find a selection of hints to help you solve what can be a difficult game, so read on for all of the info.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Strands expert
Your Strands expert
Marc McLaren
NYT Strands today (game #51) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… As easy as pie
NYT Strands today (game #51) – hint #2 – clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• PEST
• CREST
• DELUGE
• CRANE
• RUBY
• GRADE
NYT Strands today (game #51) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Bake off
NYT Strands today (game #51) – hint #4 – spangram position
Where does today’s spangram start and end?
• Start: bottom, 3rd column
• End: top, 5th column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #51) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Strands, game #51, are…
PECAN
BUTTER
FLOUR
SALT
SYRUP
SUGAR
VANILLA
SPANGRAM: INGREDIENTS
My rating: Hard
My score: Perfect
Yet again I struggled with a Strands puzzle through lack of knowledge of the theme. I have eaten pecan pie, but I’m not hugely into baking (I make a mean curry, though) and given that I hail from the UK rather than the US, I don’t have that cultural awareness of what is a staple of American cuisine.
For that reason, I found it difficult to spot all of the answers even once it was obvious what kind of words I needed. Some – for instance FLOUR and SUGAR – were fairly obvious, but I had no idea that SYRUP or VANILLA were part of the deal. And where are EGGS – surely they’re needed? As I said, I’m no expert…
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday 22 April, game #50)
KNIGHT
MAGE
BARD
ROGUE
SORCERER
ASSASSIN
HUNTER
SPANGRAM: FANTASY
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Quordle – the game that challenges you to solve four games of Wordle at the same time. Or to solve them consecutively, in the case of the Daily Sequence variation. You’ll find the answers to both puzzles below, plus hints for the standard version (if you play the Sequence version you’re on your own, I’m afraid).
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Quordle expert
Your Quordle expert
Marc McLaren
Quordle today (game #820) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #820) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #820) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• P
• S
• G
• S
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #820) – the answers
(Image credit: Merriam-Webster)
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #820, are…
Another day brings another fairly standard Quordle. Standard in that it’s potentially quite tricky, with several traps for the unwary. One of them is STOOP – which contains a repeated letter and which is probably a less obvious word than STOMP, which I played first and therefore lost one guess to. Another is GAVEL, which is just a difficult word in general. But my start words came up trumps again and I was able to solve the final word with one guess spare.
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It’s time for your Monday instalment of NYT Strands, the word game that challenges you to solve a kind of leveled-up wordsearch.
Today’s puzzle is not too bad, in my experience, but if you need hints to help you then scroll down and you’ll find a selection.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Strands expert
Your Strands expert
Marc McLaren
NYT Strands today (game #50) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Character class
NYT Strands today (game #50) – hint #2 – clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• SASH
• SORE
• BORN
• NASTY
• TASK
• NIGHT
NYT Strands today (game #50) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Dungeons and dragons
NYT Strands today (game #50) – hint #4 – spangram position
Where does today’s spangram start and end?
• Start: left, 3rd row
• End: right, 5th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #50) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today’s Strands, game #50, are…
KNIGHT
MAGE
BARD
ROGUE
SORCERER
ASSASSIN
HUNTER
SPANGRAM: FANTASY
My rating: Moderate
My score: Perfect
That’s more like it. After I really struggled to solve yesterday’s Strands and ended up needing two hints, I found this to be a lot more straightforward. That said, you may well not have done – because how easy it was for you will have depended on your knowledge of the fantasy genre. Mine is pretty strong, so once I found KNIGHT and then MAGE, both of which relatively obvious, I was able to knock them off one by one with no mishaps.
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Sunday 21 April, game #49)
DRIVE
SPEAK
CRAWL
MARRY
VOTE
GRADUATE
RETIRE
SPANGRAM: MILESTONES
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Another week brings another round of Quordles to puzzle over. Today’s is a moderately tough one, so if you need a helping hand then scroll down for my hints. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you’ll also find the answers. But why not give it a go yourself before peeking at them, eh?
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Quordle expert
Your Quordle expert
Marc McLaren
Quordle today (game #819) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #819) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 2.
Quordle today (game #819) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• P
• A
• D
• E
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #819) – the answers
(Image credit: Merriam-Webster)
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #819, are…
This is a potentially tricky Quordle due to the repeated letters in both ADAGE and DIODE, together with the relatively uncommon nature of both words. That I didn’t find it difficult was mostly down to the performance of my start words, which between them gave me all but three of the letters I needed.
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I had all five for PLAID, which I duly solved with no problems, and was able to guess DIODE because I couldn’t think of any other options that fit. ADAGE caused me a like more thought – I nearly guessed EVADE – while ELBOW was a shot to nothing that came off.
It might surprise you to know that becoming a sustainability warrior doesn’t necessarily take a calling. Sometimes, it just needs to start as a hobby that you can share with someone you love. That’s how Retrospekt, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based technology refurbishment firm got its start – and how, somewhat improbably, I’m now playing with what is essentially a 35-year-old Game Boy that looks as if it was made yesterday.
“It’s actually quite fun being able to stay in the midwest and bring something unique to the midwest,” Retrospekt co-owner and CEO Adam Fuerst told me during a lengthy conversation, adding that partner and licensee companies are often surprised at their location.
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Dressed in an open plaid shirt and white T-shirt, Fuerst, 37, described the unassuming nearly decade-old beginnings of a company that would go on to recover, refurbish, and resell everything from aging Game Boys and 4th-gen iPods to Polaroid cameras and Sony Walkman cassette players.
Fuerst didn’t really plan the business. While attending grad school with his then-girlfriend, now wife and company co-owner Kori Fuerst in Wisconsin, they started refurbishing old and discarded tech as a hobby. They kept doing it until opportunity came knocking in the form of the Impossible Film brand (since rebranded Impossible Polaroid), which was desperately looking for more Polaroid cameras to support its burgeoning retro-instant film business.
Retrospekt co-owner and CEO Adam Fuerst (Image credit: Retrospekt)
“We were broke college students and we figured, you know, you can’t get much more broke than we already are. So why not give it a try?” said Fuerst.
What’s arisen, without much of a plan, is not so much a reclamation factory but a workshop of 40 or so people, who reclaim hundreds of products a month across a handful of selected core categories (the company also produces a small selection of new, retro-style products). That selection process, by the way, is fairly specific.
“For us, we’re looking at products that were mass-produced, repairable, and have a cultural significance,” explained Fuerst.
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Naturally, the Game Boy, which by some estimates sold 120 million units, remains beloved to this day, and is celebrating its 35th anniversary on April 21, fulfills that criterion, as does the Polaroid Cameras (300 million units sold), and Sony Walkman (400 million).
Each of these products requires technical expertise, attention to detail, and often, a specific approach to bringing them back to life.
(Image credit: Future)
Whereas Polaroid cameras use film cassettes that include the batteries, Game Boys use a few AA batteries that, when they arrive at Retrospekt, have often leaked and corroded the Game Boy’s interiors.
Refurbishing consumer electronics is about as difficult as you might expect. In addition to cleaning out the corrosion, Retrospekt might replace the housing. Fuerst told me that the company has what he calls ‘New Old’ sources, places that keep stocks of original product components, like Game Boy chassis and buttons, and those are often things the company does replace.
“But the brains of the units, we keep original. So we’re not like remaking the dot matrix screen for [the Gameboy],” he said.
The refurb team dissembles the products, bench-tests everything, and repairs them at a component level. They can, when necessary, even create replacement components, often by scavenging other refurbishment stock.
“Most of the parts that we produce are from taking 10 units and making six units from them, and then you get donor parts from the other four, for example,” Fuerst added. It’s a”nothing goes to waste” mentality that fits with Retrospekt’s larger purpose.
“What our value is to the community is not just to go and source working units and resell them, but it’s really to get the stuff that’s destined for landfill and that no one wants and is just quite frankly garbage without someone doing this labor of love on each unit,” Fuerst explains.
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A lot of work goes into every gadget reclamation project.(Image credit: Retrospekt)
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Retrospket applies the same care to other product categories. For a recent Polaroid 600 Barbie-themed camera, the company used all original internals and created new pink outer shells.
It puts considerable effort into restoring the Sony Walkman cassette players, something that’s made doubly hard by the fact that the original belts that drive the tape spools are all 30 years old and deteriorating. “Our team has worked really hard to source replacement motors for a lot of these units, and really dials these in at such a precise level of function,” said Fuerst. “It’s something I’m really proud of, and something we do in the hundreds of each month.”
Other refurb products in high demand include those iPods. I asked about the original iPod, but the company can’t find enough replacement parts. And without source parts, Retrospekt might be building something that diverges from the original product experience.
“We want whatever leaves here to just look like a million bucks and to look as closely as it did to the original,” Fuerst explained. “If we can’t get replacement screens or replacement housings for some of these things that we’re trying to do in a large volume, it’s really hard to scale, especially something that is used and abused so much, like an iPod.”
He told me the company is fulfilling a desire to “experience retro stuff. They [customers] don’t want a pale imitation of the 80s. They want the 80s or they want the 90s. They don’t want a replica of it. They want the real thing.”
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This 35-year-old Nintendo Game Boy looks like new, but its refurbished.(Image credit: Future)
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Anecdotally, the pair of Game Boys Retrospekt sent me, one from 1989 and the other a Game Boy Color from 1998, are indistinguishable from the originals, right down to the pair of Tetris games the company included. Those too, it turns out, are reclamations.
“We take them apart. We replace the battery cells inside if they have a battery cell so that you can save them,” Fuerst said. “We reset them, we clean all the contacts inside as well, so you have a great contact when you go to use it.”
For the amount of work and detail Retrospket puts into everything it does, the prices for these refurbed gadgets are not as high as you might expect. The Game Boys sell for around $150 a piece, and the games are $29 a piece.
Affordability, like everything else Retrospekt does, is no accident. “I mean they’re not cheap, but for the amount of time and attention to detail that goes into each one of these units, it’s fairly affordable. That can only happen when you can get the units at a real low-low price,” Fuerst explained.
As for where Retrospekt sources its gadgets, the purchasing team has what Fuerst called a variety of traditional online sources but added that “there’s people that come directly to us and they’ll say, ‘I run an e-waste facility, and I see these come in.’ We have people that just know about us, and they reach us and say, ‘Hey, I have one of these, it’s corroded, do you want it?’ or ‘will you give me anything for it?’”
Thanks to the popularity of gadgets like the Game Boy and micro-cassette players there’s a steady supply of unused, disused, and discarded gadgetry out there.
It’s also worth noting that Retrospekt doesn’t try to use refurbishment or reclaimed technology as an excuse for not standing behind the products, Each one has a 14-day money-back guarantee and a three-month warranty, though even there Retrospekt can be flexible.
“We have people that, unfortunately, they forget that everything’s not built like a cell phone anymore. So you get a lot of people that just throw their Walkman onto their bed and then it falls off their bed out to their floor and breaks.” In those cases, if the product is out of warranty, Retrospekt may offer a healthy discount on a replacement unit.
“Ultimately, want to make sure that these are continuing to exist in the world and that people are using them, and they’re not just storing them in a cupboard somewhere,” said Fuerst.
I was curious to know if Retrospket had considered reclaiming the original iPhone, but Fuerst dismissed the idea because he isn’t sure what people would do with it. There’s no updated iOS to run on it, and most of the apps will no longer work; Retrospekt is refurbishing for use, not polishing up museum pieces. One phone that Fuerst would like to see rise up from the trash heap, though, is the original Motorola Razr, which he described as “the best phone ever produced.”
“I’m just waiting for Gen Alpha to discover Razr phones and just take it to the next level and just unplug. I can’t wait, I just, I think for everything there’s a counterbalance, and I think it’s coming for us and I can’t wait for it.”
In some ways Rertospekt is a counterbalance to our decades of unbridled consumerism. We bought, used, loved, and then discarded millions of gadgets, and now Retrospekt is here to, in its way, tip the balance back just a bit, and keep some of those products out of landfills, at least for now.
Either today’s NYT Strands game is the toughest for weeks or I was off form today. I suspect it’s a little of column A, a little of column B. Give it a go and see how you fare – and take advantage of my Strands hints if you need help finding the answers.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Strands expert
Your Strands expert
Marc McLaren
NYT Strands today (game #49) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… That’s life!
NYT Strands today (game #49) – hint #2 – clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• TEAR
• RATES
• SKATE
• TASK
• LEAK
• CRANE
NYT Strands today (game #49) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Landmark events
NYT Strands today (game #49) – hint #4 – spangram position
Where does today’s spangram start and end?
• Start: bottom, 3rd column
• End: left, 4th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #49) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Strands, game #49, are…
DRIVE
SPEAK
CRAWL
MARRY
VOTE
GRADUATE
RETIRE
SPANGRAM: MILESTONES
My rating: Very tough
My score: Two hints
Wow! Where to start here then? Well, I guess I can begin with how tough it is – answer: very.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but it certainly foxed me, and I needed two hints to solve today’s Strands puzzle, for the first time since my very first game several weeks ago.
The problem, for me at least, was that the theme was so vague. Yes, after I’d solved it all it became a little clearer, but ‘Milestones’ is a lot less focused than, for instance, things you use for sewing or ways of walking.
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I was also totally thrown by the spangram. This was a misreading on my part, but it was my understanding that the spangram would always go from one side of the board to the other – top to bottom or vice-versa, or left to right/right to left. Today’s doesn’t do that – it goes from bottom to right to left, and for that reason I simply couldn’t find it until there was no other path left for it, once I’d found all of the other words.
On reflection, this is my mistake. The rules state that “The spangram describes the puzzle’s theme and touches two opposite sides of the board. It may be two words.” Note that it doesn’t say it only touches two opposite sides. So today’s does satisfy that requirement. And in fairness, it also happened with TAILORING for game #46, I just didn’t notice it there because I found it an easy NYT Strands puzzle to solve in general.
My solving strategy here was therefore one of brute force. I played as many words as I could, without necessarily realizing they were part of an overall pattern, until I had three of them: SPEAK, CRAWL and MARRY. At this point I realized what was going on, but I still struggled to find either other examples or what the spangram might be, so ended up using those hints. Maybe that’s because the NYT’s milestones are not necessarily what mine would be. Sure, voting and graduating and driving are all things I’ve done, but none were massively notable for me compared to other landmark events such as going to my first music festival or becoming a father (the latter is obviously more of a big deal than the former, though my 18-year-old self would not have predicted that).
Anyway, I got there in the end. Let’s hope tomorrow’s is a little easier, yes?
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Saturday 20 April, game #48)
STROLL
STRUT
MARCH
AMBLE
TRUDGE
TREK
SAUNTER
SPANGRAM: PEDESTRIAN
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
You’ll need your wits about you to solve Quordle today, because it’s rather a tough one. On the plus side, it being a Sunday means you should have plenty of time to think it through. Slow and steady wins the day.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Quordle expert
Your Quordle expert
Marc McLaren
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• C
• F
• C
• M
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #818) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Quordle, game #818, are…
I solved today’s Quordle with two guesses remaining, but that owed far more to my strategy of beginning with three fixed start words than it did to any intelligence on my part. Today’s game is a really, really tough one – and frankly, I got lucky.
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For starters, one of the words, CAVIL, is one I simply didn’t know. I think of myself as a relatively erudite person, but I’ve simply never come across it before; for the uninitiated, it means “to raise trivial and frivolous objection”, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Beyond that, MANGA is also a bit of a nightmare word, with repeated As of which one sits at the end of a word. Plus, FUNKY has a format that can regularly be found in other words; FUNNY, primarily, but also PUNKY and HUNKY and possibly the likes of LUCKY and PINKY.
Fortunately for me, my start words – STARE, DOILY and PUNCH – gave me everything I needed to solve CASTE right away, and with FUNKY I made an educated guess knowing that I could play FUNNY next if I was wrong. MANGA was more of a stab in the dark, but it worked, and that left CAVIL. Here I really was scratching around for a while, but I’d used to many letters by then that it was the only word I could find that Quordle would accept, so I played it and was relived when all five letters turned green.
On the plus side, the Sequence was pretty simple today at least.
Given everyone’s sustained interest in playing games on their phones, companies are eager to offer an experience that works better than just jabbing your fingers on a touchscreen. Razer, the maker of unapologetically robust and garish gaming devices, has a new offering that does just that.
The new Razer Kishi Ultra is a souped up controller that adds pro-level thumbsticks, buttons, and triggers to just about any mobile device. It’s the latest in Razer’s Kishi lineup of portable gaming devices, which launched in 2020. The two handles pull apart, allowing you to slide your phone in between them. Let the spring-loaded clamp grip your phone, and you’ve got something like a DIY Nintendo Switch. It uses a USB-C port to connect to the phone. In addition, it can handle an iPad Mini and any Android tablet measuring up to 8 diagonal inches as long as it has a USB-C port. The Kishi Ultra only works with USB-C iPhones, so it’s limited to iPhone 15 and beyond. (It can even handle some folding phones.) The Kishi Ultra can also connect to your PC via USB-C cable. Like nearly everything Razer makes, the Kishi Ultra is loaded up with RGB lighting options which you can change via the associated app, so you can have your fill of customizable flashiness.
The Kishi is unlike the Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck, which are fully fledged portable gaming machines on their own. But gaming devices with more specific use cases are gaining popularity, like Playstation’s Portal device, which only lets you stream games from your existing PS5. Razer has been making gaming handheld devices since 2013, and has its own Steam Deck-style Razer Edge handheld. But more and more companies are eager to make devices that work with the screen you already have in your pocket. Devices like Razer’s latest and those from the gaming company Backbone are meant to strap controllers to the side of your device and enhance your mobile play time.
Here’s some other consumer tech news from this week.
Meta Adds an AI Images to WhatsApp
Meta has added AI Image generation capabilities to its WhatsApp messaging platform. As part of its rollout for its Llama 3 large language model that came this week, the company has juiced up its Meta AI in-app offerings.
The AI image generation option in WhatsApp works like sending a text message. You can go into a private chat with Meta AI and type out a prompt. The keyword in the input field is “imagine,” so if you type that and a description of the image you want to create, the AI assistant will generate a visual representation of your prompt. And it happens nearly instantly. The image pops up on screen as you’re typing, and you can see the image change and generate in real time as you add more words to your prompt. This can get … quite weird as you add more parameters to your request, but the more descriptive you are, the more detail the generator can work into a picture. The resulting images are about what you would expect from any AI art source these days—weird proportions, humans with too many fingers, misplaced eyeballs. Still, it’s both neat and very strange to watch an AI generate your description of something as you’re writing it.
Meet GMC’s Hulking New Denali EV Pickup
Photograph: GMC
There is a deluge of new EVs coming out this year, ranging from tiny three-wheeled smart cars like the Nimbus One to revved-up supercars like the upcoming electric Dodge Charger. Pickup trucks are a slightly more niche space in the EV market, aside from popular models like the Ford F-150 Lightning, Rivian’s offerings, and Tesla’s floundering Cybertruck (every one of which was just recalled.)
It’s the weekend. Yay! And in keeping with the more relaxed nature of the day, this Strands puzzle is a little easier to solve than some. Yay again!
Strands is the latest addition to the New York Times’ Games selection, joining the likes of Wordle and Connections. It’s great fun, but can be tricky at times, so scroll down for my hints. Although as I said above, this one isn’t necessarily too bad…
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Strands expert
Your Strands expert
Marc McLaren
NYT Strands today (game #48) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Walk this way
NYT Strands today (game #48) – hint #2 – clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• TRUTH
• TUSK
• STEER
• GRANT
• EDGE
• CLAM
NYT Strands today (game #48) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• On foot
NYT Strands today (game #48) – hint #4 – spangram position
Where does today’s spangram start and end?
• Start: left, 3rd row
• End: right, 6th row
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NYT Strands today (game #48) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Strands, game #48, are…
STROLL
STRUT
MARCH
AMBLE
TRUDGE
TREK
SAUNTER
SPANGRAM: PEDESTRIAN
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
The clue here was ‘Walk this way’, and once I’d established that AEROSMITH wasn’t an answer (and neither was RUN-DMC), it was obvious that what was needed was ‘words associated with walking’. I couldn’t find STRIDE, but uncovered STROLL, MARCH and TRUDGE early on, and the others followed easily enough afterwards.
The spangram might have been harder, but by then I’d revealed so much of the board that it was no great problem to find PEDESTRIAN and finish off the puzzle.
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Friday 19 April, game #47)
MUSIC
NEWS
WEATHER
SPORTS
TRAFFIC
COMEDY
TALK
SPANGRAM: DRIVETIME
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Welcome to the weekend, Quordle-style. As is the case during the week, you get nine guesses to solve four Wordle-esque puzzles, so don’t expect it to get any easier just because you don’t have work today. And for those of you who do have work today, I apologize – you’ll have to find time for Quordle too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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Marc McLaren
Quordle today (game #817) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #817) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #817) – hint #3 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• S
• F
• D
• O
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Quordle today (game #817) – the answers
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The answers to today’s Quordle, game #817, are…
A much easier Quordle today, for me at least. However, it may not have been easier for you, because as with the past couple of days there’s a repeated letter to contend with, and also some words that have multiple similarly spelled alternatives.
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The worst was DULLY, which could have been FULLY, PULLY, SULLY, GULLY or BULLY. That wasn’t an issue for me because I already had a green D in that segment of the game, but maybe it was for you, in which case this was probably the hardest answer to find. FORTH could also have been WORTH, which might also have caused you to lose one guess.
Fortunately for me, my start words did a lot of the hard work, and I was able to complete today’s Quordle with two guesses remaining. Fingers crossed that you solved it too.
