Current NYT Strands Tips, Answers and Help for January 16, #319

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Raise the glass to be modern Strings puzzle — unless you participate in Dry January, of course. Whether you are or not, once you recognize the theme, you can see hidden words even without details. However, if you want advice and answers, read on.

Also, I go deep about Strands rules in this article.

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Consider the modern version of Strands

Today’s theme for Strands is: The bar association

If that doesn’t help, here’s a solution: Cheers!

Key words to unlock game ideas

Your goal is to find the hidden words that match the theme of the picture. If you’re stuck, find the words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands reveals one of the words in the theme. These are the words I like to get the tips from, but any word of four or more letters you can find will work:

• PATS, STAT, TING, TINGE, SAIL, SAILS, SIDE, SIDE, CAMS, STING, RAMS, TAMS

Modern Strands puzzle solutions

These are the answers that relate to the topic. The object of the puzzles is to find them all, including the spangram, a word that moves from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have them all (at first I thought there were always eight but I learned that the number varies), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

• COSMOPOLITAN, MARTINI, ZOMBIE, SIDECAR, STINGER

Today Strands spangram

Today Strands spangram is BOOKS. To find it, start with C which is four letters from the left on the top row and go down.