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ForbesToday\u2019s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram, Answers: Saturday, July 4 (Ooh!)By Paul Tassi<\/a><\/p>\n A canine-based puzzle today, but it will test your knowledge of a certain kind of breed, many of which no longer fulfill their original purpose at all for most owners. <\/p>\n How To Play Strands<\/p>\n The New York Times\u2019 Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It\u2019s in beta for now, which means it\u2019ll only stick around if enough people play it every day.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you\u2019ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram links two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.<\/p>\n Be warned: You\u2019ll need to be on your toes.<\/p>\n \u201cSome 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,\u201d The New York Times notes. \u201cJust as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy] Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/p>\n What Is Today\u2019s Strands Hint?<\/p>\n Time to do the NYT hint and then my own hint after that:<\/p>\n Barking up the right tree<\/p>\n And mine is:<\/p>\n Got their scent<\/p>\n Today\u2019s NYT Strands Opening Letters<\/p>\n Here are the first two letters of all the words if you don\u2019t want the entire thing just yet.<\/p>\n What Are Today\u2019s Strands Answers?<\/p>\n Now we begin the answer portion of the program which is the spangram and the full list of the other answers, the spangram is:<\/p>\n HUNTINGBREEDS<\/p>\n Here it is on the page, and read on:<\/p>\n The answers are:<\/p>\n POINTERSPANIELRETRIEVERTERRIERHOUND<\/p>\n While obviously there is still a lot of hunting done in the world, and even a lot of it involving dogs (uh, helping, dogs helping), it remains a fact that a lot of these breeds are currently far from their original jobs. It would not have occurred to me at all that a Spaniel was a hunting dog these days, and you may not remember that retrievers used to retrieve more than just tennis balls and frisbees.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>,<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series<\/a> and The Earthborn Trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n