NYT ‘Strands’ Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Monday, January 13th

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The weekend is over, sadly, and it’s back to the old grindstone. Monday is upon us, and we have work to do and puzzles to solve. Connections, Wordles, Spelling Bees—and, of course, we need to uncover all the words in today’s Strands!

Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme.

Spoilers ahead.

Today’s Strands Hints

Today’s Theme: Hole foods

Hint #1: Not donuts.

Hint #2: Think flavors.

To help you uncover all the words, here are the first two letters of every word, including the spangram.

• PL
• BL
• EV
• RA
• SE
• GA
• BA

Remember, spoilers ahead!

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Today’s spangram is: BAGELS

Here’s the full list of words:

• PLAIN
• BLUEBERRY
• EVERYTHING
• RAISIN
• SESAME
• GARLIC

Here’s the completed Strands grid:

Today’s Strands Breakdown

I’m a little disappointed that one of my favorite BAGELS isn’t on this grid: Asiago bagels! At first I was trying to find different foods with holes, so I looked for donut and didn’t find that and then I did find BAGEL but since I didn’t include the ‘S’ it didn’t pop up as the spangram. From here I found GARLIC and then PLAIN and realized BAGEL must have been the spangram and went back and plugged in the S. After that it was pretty easy. EVERYTHING then BLUEBERRY. Then SESAME and finally RAISIN. All good bagels!

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