Hints, Spangram And Answers For Friday, May 23rd

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ForbesNYT ‘Strands’ Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Thursday, May 22ndBy Erik Kain

Well the day has finally come. It’s my last Strands guide for the time being. I’ll be off the rotation for a couple of weeks, but I’ll be back sometime in June — the best month of the year — to help you uncover words once again. For now, let’s solve this 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, revealing more about the rest of the words on the grid.

Spoilers ahead.

Today’s Strands Hints

Read on for today’s theme and some hints to help you uncover today’s words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I’m giving out three hints instead of two.

Today’s Theme: The magical fruit.

Hint: The more you eat the more you toot.

Clue: The more you toot, the happier you’ll be!

Here are the first two letters of each of today’s words:

Remember, spoilers ahead!

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

Today’s spangram is: BEANSALAD

Here’s the full list of words:

• GREEN
• KIDNEY
• BLACK
• FAVA
• CANNELLINI
• NAVY
• PINTO

Here’s the completed Strands grid:

Today’s Strands Breakdown

If you like beans, this won’t be too hard of a Strands for you, though I think even the best of us struggles with the spelling of CANNELLINI which, even once I knew it was there, took me a few tries. Of course, I knew this was beans-related thanks to the very obvious theme “Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot” and so forth. It was only a matter of time before I started seeing them everywhere: GREEN beans, KIDNEY beans, PINTO beans, BLACK beans. I knew which ones to look for and I found them, lickety-split. Now I’m going to go make a burrito.

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