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What is today’s Strands puzzle all about? Currently, the New York Times word puzzle game, Strands, has rapidly attracted a large number of fun-loving people due to its challenging measures and diverse topics. Every day there is a new addition to the task wherein players find out the mystery words that belong to a certain theme; collectively, there is a Spangram across the grid containing an exciting hint towards the solution to the puzzle.
November 15 Strands puzzle, includes a theme that will make people feel like eating lunch while solving the puzzle. The hints used in today’s puzzle together with the Spangram and the answers to them are shown below.
The title of today’s puzzle, “Dress for lunch” might seem demure. However, if you strip it from the assumption of dressing in the conventional way, then the words on the grid are something else completely.
The following hints guide players through today’s puzzle:
Hint #1: This is rather more associated with the ‘clothing’ rather than clothing.
Hint #2: It refers to something that may be eaten for lunch—and sometimes for supper.
Each word begins with the following letters:
RO
KA
IC
WA
RA
SA
The spangram, located from the top half of one side of the grid to the centre of the other, is SALAD GREENS.
Here’s the complete set of words from today’s puzzle:
ROMAINE
KALE
ICEBERG
WATERCRESS
RADICCHIO
These words refer to different ways of making salads instead of dressings such as ranch or Caesar.
The theme is quite unconventional but brings some twists to the table. Regarding the words KALE and ROMAINE, it was much simpler to realize what it is, it is enough to recall salads. But, with RADICCHIO and WATERCRESS, it was one notch higher. The use of different kinds of greens instead of dressings made this puzzle highly motivating and interesting.
Nevertheless, today’s puzzle seemed slightly easier as compared to the other puzzles set for this week’s themes. Occasionally, seeing one word made it possible to easily notice the rest of the terms that followed it.
NYT Strands maintains its invention in solving word puzzles with its creative idea. Holding relatively mundane names like “Dress for lunch”, such themes add the factor of interest, while most players wait for their turn to get intrigued. Regardless of easy grids or complex ones, this game always provides something different from the other every time.
For everyday users, practices like adding a delicious solution to different puzzles which would include today’s one: All solutions suggest further appreciation and understanding of all the high-level puzzles behind Strands.
So sit tight for the next grid because you know that it again will be full of fun and surprises.
