By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "April showers..." — is part of a phrase that you may or may not know. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #407, as well as the answers,