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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 13, #406

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 406 for April 13.

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Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a real puzzler. Even once I solved it, I had to get the spangram before I knew what the heck was connecting all the answers, and even then, it took me a minute. If you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Orange door hinge

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Sounds like a hue.

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints, but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

HELP, HELL, THEY, HEEL, SEAT, POSE, PLAT, PILE, COPE, COLE, ROLE, SHELF, LOAD, POLL, GREY

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you’ve got all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

FLEW, QUEEN, HELLO, PILOT, HEIGHT, PLAQUE, SPREAD (The colors they rhyme with are blue, green, yellow, violet, white, black and red.)

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is COLORRHYMES. To find it, start with the C that’s four letters down on the far left and wind up, then down and over.

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 15, #674

Hints and answers for Connections for April 15, #674.

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Today’s Connections puzzle has an oddly-worded purple category, but it makes sense once you think about it. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Stop that.

Green group hint: Deal me in.

Blue group hint: Euripedes.

Purple group hint: Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Desist.

Green group: Card games.

Blue group: Elements of Greek drama.

Purple group: Second words of «Peter Pan» characters.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is desist. The four answers are abstain, avoid, cease and refrain.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is card games. The four answers are bridge, hearts, speed and spoons.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is elements of Greek drama. The four answers are chorus, hero, hubris and tragedy.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is second words of «Peter Pan» characters. The four answers are Bell, Darling, Hook and Pan.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 15, #1396

Here are hints — and the answer — for today’s Wordle No. 1,396 for April 15.

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Today’s Wordle puzzle was a tough one. It’s not an especially common word, and the letter placement really threw me off. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with a vowel.

Wordle hint No. 4: Start of the alphabet

Today’s Wordle answer begins with A.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a pale gray color.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is ASHEN.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, April 14, No. 1395 was CREST.

Recent Wordle answers

April 10, No. 1391: TURBO

April 11, No. 1392: ARROW

April 12, No. 1393: NURSE

April 13, No. 1394: LAUGH

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