Today’s Strands puzzle turns the spotlight on luxury and flamboyance. With showy adjectives and glamorous synonyms, this sparkling challenge is sure to catch your eye.
Today’s Strands puzzle welcomes players into a glittering realm of glamour and glitz. With a theme that honors extravagance and visual showmanship, the grid is a treasure chest of vocabulary linked to extravagance. From luxurious design to flashy endings, this puzzle is all about things that prompt a player to exclaim, ‘Well, fancy that!’
To reveal tips in Strands, start by discovering a decent non-theme word that’s four letters or above. Every three decent non-theme words that you find uncover a hint that leads you closer to the central theme of the puzzle. Words such as Shiny, Tang, or Extra may be stepping stones, useful, though not part of the ultimate theme. These transition words can direct you to the elusive spangram that brings it all together.
Today’s spangram, OOH SHINY, is horizontal and shows the puzzle’s theme: lavish, showy descriptions. After this spangram is discovered, the rest of the theme words are easily filled in, each a synonym or phrase associated with flashiness or pomp.
LAVISH – Rich and sumptuously full of style or presentation.
EXTRAVAGANT – Overdone or showy, more than is needed.
DELUXE – Refers to high quality or high design.
ORNATE – Richly decorated, commonly in a fancy or complicated manner.
SNAZZY – Fashionable and appealing in an ostentatious, up-to-date sense.
GAUDY – Vivid or gaudy to the extent of being tastelessly excessive.
Today's Strands puzzle is a sparkling homage to luxury that provides both linguistic and visual pleasure. The instant you reveal OOH SHINY, the rest of the grid shines with precision, every word supporting the overarching theme of everything flashy and beautiful.
With a refined combination of synonyms and flair, the May 8 challenge is a stunning tribute to glamour. Cheers to the beauty of big words and the delight of solving another well-designed puzzle. Until tomorrow, stay snazzy and keep solving!