The June 17 Strands puzzle, “picking up the pieces,” has a pun theme like many others before. The puzzle author uses wordplay to lead you to the theme instead of giving an obvious hint. You might even figure out the Spangram with just one tip if you’re a hobbyist.
Our guide will give you hints to solve today’s Strands starting from the Spangram, so you don’t have to use the built-in hints system. If finding the Spangram doesn’t help you find every answer, this guide also has the full list of solution words in their exact spots. Here’s how to solve today’s “picking up the pieces” Strands.
Picking up the pieces Strands Spangram hints
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Hint 1: Spangram location and direction
Today’s Spangram starts in the bottom row and ends in the top row, making it a bottom-up Spangram.
Hint 2: First and last letters
The first Spangram letter is “B” and the last is “S.”
Hint 3: Meaning
Games played on a board.
Picking up the pieces Spangram answer
The “picking up the pieces” Spangram is “BOARDGAMES.” It starts from the “B” in the last row and ends on the “S” in the top row.
Picking up the pieces Strands answers
Now that you know today’s Strands is about board games and player pieces, it gets easier to guess and find the right words. You don’t have to be a board game expert to solve the puzzle. All the answers are names of classic board games you likely played with friends and family at some point. Here are some hints to get you on the right track:
- Top left: A real estate trading game where players buy, sell, and trade properties to bankrupt their opponents by collecting rent.
- Top right: A murder mystery game where players deduce the murderer, weapon, and location through strategic questioning.
- Center left: A strategy game where players conquer territories and continents through strategic movement and combat to control the world.
- Center right: A race game where players move pawns around the board to get all their pawns home while sending opponents back to the start.
- Bottom left: A race game where players move pieces based on the roll of a die in a “Pop-O-Matic” bubble, aiming to get all pieces to the finish first.
- Bottom right: A two-player game where players hide their fleet on a grid and take turns guessing coordinates to sink each other’s ships.
Here are all the answers to “picking up the pieces” with all words in their exact spots..
- BOARDGAMES (Spangram)
- MONOPOLY
- CLUE
- SORRY
- BATTLESHIP
- TROUBLE
- RISK
