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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 9, #402

Are you hungry? Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 402 for Wednesday, April 9.

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle might be tricky. I couldn’t really make the connection between all the words until I read the spangram. 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: That’s quite a (tasty) mouthful.

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Long food words.

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:

FOUR, FLOW, WOLF, FATE, LABEL, LABELS, WEAR, WARE, WARES, CARE, FILL, ABLE

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:

ARUGULA, AVOCADO, WATERMELON, CAULIFLOWER

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is FOURSYLLABLES. To find it, start with the F that’s three letters down on the far left column, and wind down, up and over.

Toughest Strands puzzles

Here are some of the Strands topics I’ve found to be the toughest in recent weeks.

#1: Dated slang, Jan. 21. Maybe you didn’t even use this lingo when it was cool. Toughest word: PHAT.

#2: Thar she blows! Jan.15. I guess marine biologists might ace this one. Toughest word: BALEEN or RIGHT.

#3: Off the hook, Jan. 9. Similar to the Jan. 15 puzzle in that it helps to know a lot about sea creatures. Sorry, Charlie. Toughest word: BIGEYE or SKIPJACK.

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A Samsung Tri-Fold Phone Could Be in Your Future, if This Leak Is to Be Believed

UI animations might have revealed the imminent release of a so-called «Galaxy G Fold» device with three screens.

Samsung has been showing off mobile display concepts with three screens at trade events such as CES for several years, but it might finally bring one to market soon if a leaked UI animation is any indicator.

As reported by Android Authority, an animated image from a software build of One UI 8 appears to show what some are dubbing a «Galaxy G Fold» device with three display panels. The screens would be capable of displaying different information or working in unison as one large display. The new phone model could debut as early as next week at Samsung’s Unpacked event on July 9 in Brooklyn.

Huawei released a tri-folding phone in February, the Mate XT Ultimate Design.

Some websites have gone into overdrive trying to uncover details on what Samsung’s new device might include and how much it may cost, with Phone Arena reporting that according to a Korean media report, it could be priced at about $3,000.

Samsung didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.

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See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

More images of deep space from the new observatory were promised in a livestream.

A sneak preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile made its way to news sites and social media last week, followed by a livestream event.

«(The Rubin Observatory is) going to build the greatest time-lapse movie of the cosmos ever made,» the observatory said in a post.

The observatory is named for the American scientist widely credited for finding some of the first evidence of dark matter, with the project being funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

The scientists and officials from the NSF and DOE participated in a news conference and Q&A about the findings last week. You can watch the stream below.

Millions of galaxies, big images

Though the livestream was plagued by a few technical issues, it still offered some context on what data is being captured at the Rubin Observatory and why.

«Starting today, our ability to understand dark matter, dark energy and planetary defense will grow even faster than ever before,» said Brian Stone, the NSF’s chief of staff.

The observatory’s 3,200-megapixel camera is used for a full-sky scan that happens every three to four days. Stunning images that the observatory shares are only a fraction of what is being captured, in some cases showing only 2 percent of the full view, which would require 400 HDTVs to show.

One image can capture 10 million galaxies. Closer to Earth, astronomers have discovered 1 million asteroids in our solar system and expect to discover 5 million more in the next few years.