NYT Strands today hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, October 19 (game #230)

Date:
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:02:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

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Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today , NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #230) -
hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is Turn it up a notch NYT Strands today (game #230) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. SPAN SPAR PROM HERE SOME MOTE NYT Strands today (game #230) - hint #3 - spangram What is a hint for today's spangram?

Give it some more NYT Strands today (game #230) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First: top, 5th column

Last: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #230) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #230, are ZING KICK SPARK PIZZAZZ FIZZ OOMPH VERVE SPANGRAM: EXTRASOMETHING My rating: Moderate My score: 1 hint

Look at all those Zs! Seven of them in total, including four in PIZZAZZ
alone. These did help me to get started, though, because Z doesn't go with many other letters (vowels, basically), which made it easier to find ZING. Plus ZZ is an obvious combination and it was fairly easy to also find FIZZ
and the aforementioned PIZZAZZ. I stumbled upon KICK and SPARK by accident
and by that point had so much of the board uncovered that it felt like completing it would be a simple task.

But no. I stalled at that stage and needed a hint to unlock OOMPH. That did the trick, and when I finally spotted the spangram, EXTRASOMETHING, victory was only a guess away.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, 18 October, game #229) GYOZA SAMOSA WONTON PIEROGI EMPANADA SPANGRAM: DUMPLINGS What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's
now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable and
can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.



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NYT Strands today hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, October 26 (game #237)

Date:
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 23:02:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

FULL STORY ======================================================================

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today , NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #237) -
hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is Sing-song NYT Strands today (game #237) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. RAIL BALL BELL CABLE SING SALT NYT Strands today (game #237) - hint #3 - spangram What is a hint for today's spangram?

No instruments required NYT Strands today (game #237) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First: left, 5th row

Last: right, 6th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #237) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #237, are ARIA BALLAD SHANTY JINGLE LULLABY SPIRITUAL SPANGRAM: VOCALMUSIC My rating: Moderate My score: 2 hints

I was mildly concerned when I uncovered ARIA as the first answer today. It
was sitting prominently in the top-left corner of the board, and given that the theme clue was 'Sing-song' it seemed likely to be a solution. And it was. However, all I know about ARIAs is that they are an opera thing and I know about as much about opera as I do about brain surgery. Probably less,
frankly.

Fortunately, this wasn't a Strands puzzle all about opera, but rather one about VOCALMUSIC. Establishing that fact was not too tricky, because I
spotted the MUSIC part of the spangram on account of the SIC part being right in the middle height-wise and on the edge of the board, which led me to the full phrase. I then got BALLAD and SHANTY easily enough because they were squashed in below the spangram. so far, so good.

Only then I stalled. I couldn't think of any other types of VOCALMUSIC and needed to use hints for JINGLE and LULLABY. I added SPIRITUAL by default, but was rather disappointed I hadn't done better here.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, 25 October, game #236) CHIRP SQUEAK PURR GROWL BARK SQUAWK GRUNT MEOW SPANGRAM: PETSOUNDS What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's
now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable and
can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hi nts-26-october-2024


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