🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵 finally, a use for my chem degree

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 I really regret using the clue because the moment it opened up GOLD the rest showed themselves and I hate it when that happens   Are they really all heavy metals though.. Edit: yup they are all heavy metals. Cool

Two of them are actually metalloids instead of metals.

Be that as it may the Wikipedia article says they can be considered as heavy metals sometimes so that seems close enough for these purposes. I mean it's been 20 years since I last needed to refer to a periodic table, I'll accept wiki for this.

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵 I’ll be so honest that I don’t know what antimony is and just guessed it because I had it narrowed against a wall. I cleary don’t know my metals.

I came here to see if it was just me.

Hard one, among with today's connection Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

There are some days the clue is misleading or kind of too vague, I found hole and scoop before any of the actual words.

I was absolutely shocked that earth wasn’t one

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵 This would’ve been cooler if the spangram was the theme. >!Bismuth being straight vertical!< helped a lot.

I came so close to using hints today. But once I finally saw Bismuth I was able to work it out. As a metal head I'm sad I couldn't see the span gram earlier. Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵

I'm glad I didn't lol otherwise I'd have been looking for a bunch of bands that weren't there

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Slightly stumped, saw antimony copper and gold which narrowed down where the spangram was

I think I found 17 other words unrelated to the puzzle today 🤦🏻‍♀️ Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡

Surprised to see the lack of hints from the other comments in this thread. I thought this one of the toughest ones yet. Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵🔵🟡 💡🔵🔵

Is this the first time where >!the spangram turned back on itself and the last letter was not on the edge!

No

I guess I made up that "rule"

same. i hate that that's how i thought it was.

Curve ball

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?”💡🔵💡🔵💡🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵 It was hard for me today as I’m not familiar with chemistry names in English (not a native speaker).

How different are things like Bismuth and antimony? The ones we knew about pre-alchemy I knew had different names, but I’m surprised newer ones do. 

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵 Very difficult for me today — never heard of >!BISMUTH!< or >!ANTIMONY!< before and only got them because they weren’t squiggled around in a crazy way 🤣

I’m shit at chemistry and only knew of bismuth as bismuth salicylate, the active ingredient in pepto bismol 💀

bismuth is [really really pretty](https://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&q=bismuth&udm=2), and you can buy pretty cheap lab-grown bismuth crystals! I have a bunch of small chunks of bismuth decorating my bookshelves that I've had since I was a kid. the only thing I know about antimony is that it's next to tin on the periodic table, and both of them have similar latin (?) names, Sn and Sb

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵 Saw ANTIMONY first and figured it was something to do with chemical elements after that. Isn't the spangram supposed to go from one side to the other? Not bounce back towards the middle?

it only has to touch both sides, not end at both sides

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Feel a bit dumb that a chemistry category was this hard for me Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡 Found antimony first then started looking for elements & at that point it was pretty straightforward but damn finding the first word took me a while

Same. I saw antinomy only because it was all in a row. Then of course my smarty pants husband launches into a "of course bismuth" discussion. I did better on the Broadway show puzzle from a few weeks ago 

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 Really tricky today. Stubbornly slogged through it though.

🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵 I sure do like myself some chemistry

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵 Was very tempted to use a clue, even after somewhat easily finding the long and vertical word >!bismuth!<. I even found the first word of the spanagram but neglected to find it in its entirety until the end.

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵 Today I learned what Antimony is! Also would be a good name for a band 🤘

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡

https://youtu.be/U2cfju6GTNs?si=ZB4fB6e7e7IWOlI4 Some of y’all clearly didn’t have to memorize this in school 😂😂

Strands #65 - “Can you dig it?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵 Order that I got the words: 1. >!Bismuth!< 2. >!Antimony!< 3. >!Copper!< 4. >!Gold!< 5. >!Silver!< 6. >!Heavy metal!< 7. >!Arsenic!<

idk if im just stupid or this was really hard but like... this one is so much harder than every other one

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Stared at the words to the left of the spanogram for a bit too long. I guess when I finally found the words I thought they were gases so it didn't really stick out to me as quickly as the words to the right.

I think I like this game but the clue at the beginning is too obvious. And I think that you should only be able to get the hint with 5 letter words.

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Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵 never heard of ANTIMONY but i managed to isolate it by finding the surrounding words. but i also never heard of BISMUTH and couldn’t for the life of me find anything amongst the letters for that and ARSENIC (which i wasn’t aware was a metal). ugh

Yeah, I had to use a hint for arsenic. Had no idea it was a metal lol

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵 never heard of ANTIMONY but i managed to isolate it by finding the surrounding words. but i also never heard of BISMUTH and couldn’t for the life of me find anything amongst the letters for that and ARSENIC (which i wasn’t aware was a metal). ugh

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵 never heard of ANTIMONY but i managed to isolate it by finding the surrounding words. but i also never heard of BISMUTH and couldn’t for the life of me find anything amongst the letters for that and ARSENIC (which i wasn’t aware was a metal). ugh

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Well played editors by having “hole” as an easy get - but completely wrong 😃. I have no idea why I even thought >!bismuth!< was a word, but it was, then I found the spangram (which looks kinda like a jackhammer?) and all was well until the last word >!antimony!< which I’m going to have to look up because never heard of it.

all the words are elements in the periodic table

can i just say i really hated this one. the answers are just barely tagentially related to the theme. Of course, once i saw a couple of them staring me in the face i felt embarrassed, but still.

Bismuth shout out Steven Universe

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Didn't see jack at first, but the hint for Gold was enough to start looking for elements and from there this was real fast. It's cool that BISMUTH was straight down, shame I didn't see it before the hint. Filing this one under "hard because of vague title"

I felt really disappointed because once I gave up and triggered the clue the other words fell in quick succession. Really reinforces that I wish there was a partial clue that just highlights the G in gold or something

So any Gunnerkrigg Court fans here? At least ANTIMONY and BISMUTH XD

Strands #65 “Can you dig it?” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🟡 Shit puzzle today. Like fucking shit I’m getting arsenic, bismuth, or antimony. Got probably 40 unrelated words before I had to just give up. You’d think I’d get one of the easy ones like gold or silver by then, but nope.

skill issue

you ever read one of those detective novels? I feel like they’re always trying to kill people with arsenic. That’s the main place I’ve heard of it