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As we enter the new week, today’s New York Times Strands puzzle embodies the spirit of spring with a cool theme: April Showers. Perfectly named, this Monday’s puzzle encourages players to welcome the rains of the season and the life they nurture, with a 6x8 grid filled with words relating to this rainy season. Similar to the showers themselves, this puzzle provides a moment of reflection and pause, transporting solvers into a realm in which rain and renewal are paramount.
Begin your Monday with the calming cadence of April Showers. Today’s Strands puzzle transports solvers into the springtime freshness, in which rain and renewal are the focal point. As you make your way through the 6x8 grid, unearthing words connected to the showers of the season, you’ll feel the happiness of discovery and serenity of a rainy day, comfortably from your screen.
The theme of today’s Strands puzzle is the legendary April showers and the flowers they nurture in nature. From rain to the blooms that follow it, the grid is riddled with words that reflect the essence of this time of year. The seven words have to be discovered by the players, including the spangram, which serves to encapsulate everything and unveil the core idea of the puzzle. The theme words of today’s puzzle are:
TULIP
SPRING FLOWERS
HYACINTH
IRIS
LILY
DAFFODIL
CROCUS
Each of these flowers is a representation of the colorful, new life that comes with the gentle April showers, a reminder of the power of the season to rejuvenate and revive. The spangram, SPRING FLOWERS, serves as an anchor in the grid and offers players a reference to fill out the puzzle.
Today’s NYT Strands was tricky enough to make one keep coming back but not so much as to make them give up hope. Finding the special words hidden in the April Showers will soak the player in memories of that nice slow rhythm from what would anticipate a rainy day, rather than focusing solely on the completion of a puzzle. It embodies the struggle of a serene kind to find the phrases as a monsoon shower inviting exploration across an awakening world. Each word found transforms, in essence, the commonplace act of puzzle-solving into a moment of value in nature’s cyclic beauty. The grid, after all, is a beautiful projection of the season’s life-giving power.
It wasn’t just a test but a reminder of the beauty called spring by this puzzle of today’s Strands. More aptly called April Showers, it attuned the feeling of the season for the solver. While reaping the harvest of raindown in the field to pay back what got invested, today’s puzzle watered the brain with a test of its own brilliance. Tomorrow’s Strands puzzle will introduce yet another flavor theme that would entice you.
