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1.Today’s hints
2.Today’s answer
3.Yesterday’s answer
Need a bit of help with NYT Strands today?
Today’s theme “Trick or treat!”
is clearly seasonal, but may not be quite as obvious as it seems.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #242.
And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “What are you going as?”
The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word.
Today, it starts with ‘C’ and ends with ‘E’.
Scroll down to find out what it is… ## Today’s Strands answers
So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #242?
Drumroll, hey…
…and the spangram was COSTUME.
Strands #242
Trick or treat!
A rather nice companion puzzle to yesterday’s.
That was all about candies, while today’s Strands is, of course, about Halloween.
But don’t waste time looking for the word itself, as I did: it’s not there.
In fact, it would take me a while to get the spangram itself.
I found MUMMY first, along the bottom, and WITCH to its right.
PUMPKIN was immediately above it, and I felt sure that GHOST would be in there somewhere.
Sure enough, I found it in the top half near the middle of the grid.
I couldn’t see any more monsters - as it turns out there weren’t any to find.
And there it was: the spangram.
I connected COSTUME from left to right across the middle of the board.
Yesterday’s Strands answers
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