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ForbesNYT “Strands” tips and answers for Friday, December 13thFrom Kris Holt

It’s time to start the weekend with a new Strands puzzle, and this one is all about getting you going.

How to play Strands

The New York Times’ strands Puzzle is a classic word search game. It’s currently in beta, meaning it won’t last unless enough people play it every day.

There’s a new game strands to play every day. The game presents you with a letter grid of six by eight letters. The goal is to find a group of words that have something in common and give you a clue as to what the topic is. When you find a topic word, it remains highlighted in blue.

You also need to find a special word called Spangram. This will tell you what the words have in common. The spangram connects two opposite sides of the board. While the topic words are not a proper noun, the spangram can be a proper noun. When you find the Spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.

Each letter is used once in one of the topic words and in the Spangram. You can connect letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally and change direction in the middle of a word. If you’re playing on a touchscreen, double-tap the last letter to place your guess.

Finding three valid off-topic words with at least four letters will unlock the Hint button. Clicking on it will highlight the letters that make up one of the topic words.

Be warned: you must be on your guard. Sometimes you need to fill in the missing words in a phrase. Other days the game might revolve around synonyms or homophones. The difficulty varies from day to day and the puzzle creators will sometimes try to surprise you.

What is today’s Strands clue?

We’ll start with the official note and then move on to one I make myself to make things a little clearer. The official note is:

Nothing can stop me!

And my note is:

You can do it

What are today’s Strands answers?

Time to start using Spangram, followed by the full list of answers. The spangram is:

GOGETTER

And can be found here on the board:

The answers are:

• DRIVE
• INTENSITY
• PURPOSE
• DEVOTION
• DEVOTION
• FIRE

There’s a motivation puzzle today, and I thought motivation was a real answer here, but that wasn’t the case. Not a woman in the whole puzzle! My first word was “Fire,” so I thought maybe those were song lyrics, but after that it became pretty clear what was going on. I struggled the most with Intensity as I just couldn’t figure it out for several minutes. Certainly not my best speedrun.

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