A Guide to Strands TV Towns and Fictional Cities

When a theme promises fictional locales, the first instinct is to scan for proper nouns capitalizing on geography. With five words totaling thirty-six letters, the board feels manageable, but the variety of starting letters—B, D, H, R, W—means there's no obvious cluster to kick things off. The longest entry at nine letters is often a good anchor, provided you can place it.

The category 'TV towns' is broad enough to include everything from animated prehistory to high-fantasy continents, which is the main tactical challenge. A seasoned solver knows to look for the proper-noun capitalization as the primary clue, ignoring any common nouns. The spangram, at twelve letters, is almost certainly the thematic label that binds these places together. The trickiest entry will be the one that feels less like a traditional 'town' and more like an entire world or a setting known by a single, specific location name.

If you struggled, it was likely over whether a video game capital or an entire continent truly qualified as a 'town.'