Need help with today's NYT strand? If you don't know this subject (and I don't!), today's theme, “Open-and-shut case,” is Really difficult.
Below are some helpful hints and what-if answers for Strands #268. Start with the hints to get the complete answer for Strands #268.
WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #268.
The official theme of NYT Strands #268 is...
“The Over and Shut Case.”
And here's an unofficial hint from me: “Convenient Carry-All.”
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words that give you valuable hint tokens:
Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with 'H' and ends with 'S'.
Scroll down to see what it is.
HANDBAGS.
Now, what's the answer to today's game #268 strand?
Drum roll please.
... Spangram was HANDBAGS.
Strands #268
“Open-and-Sut Case”
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Hello Strands fans! If you don't know fashion or wear handbags, as I did, you will really struggle today. I used no less than 3 clues and the last word was just piecing the letters together until I got it right. It really wasn't fun!
So, let's end this painful puzzle retry. As mentioned above, I had to use three clues, which turned out to be TOTE, BARREL, and BUCKET.
I knew these were types of bags, but did not understand that they were handbags until I connected the spangram from the gap created by the answers given.
So now I had to struggle to find the three missing words, knowing full well that I knew nothing about the subject.
MESSENGER was a good starter because it was completely cordoned off at the top of the grid. Then I saw DUFFEL under the spangram, so I took a chance and bet that it had potential.
The last one was a long struggle; I had to decipher the anagram of OYBDCSSOR, and even after seeing the word “body” in the mix, I absolutely stumbled. After much trial and error, I finally deciphered it as CROSSBODY.
Not a fun puzzle for me, but I wish you had more luck...
Are you reading this in a slower time zone? Here is yesterday's article on Strand's solution.
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