This is the archived answer guide for NYT Strands puzzle #222, published Friday, October 11, 2024—not a puzzle for today. Its theme is “Let’s experiment.” Start with the hints below, then scroll to the spoiler-marked answer list if you want the complete solution.
Hints for Strands #222
Theme
“Let’s experiment.”
Gentle hint
Think of a place where experiments happen—and where you might find a periodic table.
Spangram hint
TechRadar’s nudge is “Elemental place.” The spangram connects the board’s bottom and top edges at column four, according to TechRadar.
Spangram for October 11, 2024
The spangram is CHEMISTRYLAB (read as “CHEMISTRY LAB”). It reveals the puzzle’s laboratory theme.
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Answers for Strands #222
Spoilers below: the complete answer set follows.
- BEAKER
- FLASK
- GOGGLES
- PIPETTE
- THERMOMETER
- CHEMISTRYLAB — spangram
About the puzzle’s difficulty figures
Strands Hint labels this archived puzzle “hard” and assigns it a 98th-percentile difficulty index. That is the site’s own computed index, not an NYT rating or a survey measurement of solvers. Its additional figures—33 path turns, 1,076 decoy words, and a mean theme-word length of 7.2 letters—are also computed from that site’s solved-board representation, not statistics published by The New York Times.
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