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ForbesTips, Spangram and answers from the NYT “Strands” for Saturday, November 2By Paul Tassi

This is probably the hardest Strands which I’ve been doing since I started playing, even though the game isn’t that old at this point.

How to play strands

The New York Times Strands Puzzle is a classic word search word game. It’s in beta at the moment, which means it will only last if enough people play it every day.

There is a new Strands game to play every day. The game will present you with a six-by-eight grid of letters. The goal is to find a group of words that have something in common and you will get an idea of ​​what that theme is. When you find a topic word, it will remain highlighted in blue.

You will also need to find a special word called spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram connects two opposite sides of the board. Although theme words are not a proper noun, spangram can be a proper noun. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: you will need to be on your guard.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank sentences. They can also be steps in a process, elements all belonging to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” notes the New York Times. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle’s puzzles in a week, (Wordle and Strands editor-in-chief Tracy) Bennett plans to throw curveballs at Strands’ solvers from time to time.”

What is today’s Strands Index?

Scroll slowly. The official puzzle clue is below and I’ll make up a second one that will help you more later. The official theme clue for today’s Strand puzzle is…

In my kingdom

And my own clue? I guess I might be being too helpful here, but…

Charles Darwin

What are the answers to today’s questions?

Spoilers follow. Here are the answers, starting with the spangram and then moving on to the full list of all puzzle worlds. It may also be a word you need to look up on your own if you don’t actually know what it is.

TAXONOMY

This fits into the grid from side to side here:

The full list of answers is as follows:

• CLASS
• GENDER
• SPECIES
• DOMAIN
• ORDER
• PHYLUM
• FAMILY

This whole puzzle depends on whether or not you know the Linnaean system of biological classification which uses all these terms to group different types of organisms, and how they trace back to each other or are classified together. TAXONOMY, the spangram, is this science of classification. Most of these words are “normal”, but you might come across some very difficult words like PHYLUM. Or maybe GENUS didn’t occur to me either. This is a difficult question and one that really depends on specialist knowledge.

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