NYT Strands game #205, for Tuesday, September 24, 2024, has the theme clue “Spacing out.” Its spangram is SCIENCEFICTION. Hints and the full solution appear below, with a spoiler warning before the answer list.
Hints for Strands #205
- Theme clue: “Spacing out.”
- Spangram hint: “Time and space.”
- In-game hint words: TRAM, RAIN, SNORE, BORE, BONE, and CUMIN.
- Spangram location: It starts at the top edge in column four and ends at the bottom edge in column six.
These hints and the grid endpoints are listed in TechRadar’s September 23, 2024 guide.
Spoiler warning: full solution
The complete answer set is below.
- Spangram: SCIENCEFICTION
- Theme words: MARTIAN, CYBORG, DROID, MUTANT, ROBOT, ALIEN
The word order can vary between guides; the list above gives the complete set. Forbes’ September 23 guide independently reports the same theme and answers.
How the theme fits the answers
SCIENCEFICTION names the broad category connecting the theme words: MARTIAN and ALIEN suggest extraterrestrial beings; DROID and ROBOT are machines; CYBORG combines biological and mechanical elements; and MUTANT describes an altered organism. The words are grouped by association rather than by one narrowly defined type.
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How Strands works
Strands is a word-search-style puzzle played on a six-by-eight grid. Players find words connected by a shared theme; the spangram describes that connection and stretches between opposite sides of the board. The game is available through the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile, according to TechRadar. Forbes reproduces this description of possible themes, attributing it to The New York Times: “Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones.”
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