NYT Strands Today – Hints, Answers and Spangram for Friday November 22 (Game #264)
Strands is the NYT’s newest word game, following Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s a lot of fun. It can be difficult though, so read on for my Strands tips.
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 today’s NYT Strands is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #264) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… This is the place!
NYT Strands Today (Game #264) – Hint #2 – Clue Words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hint system.
- VINE
- TRIM
- TIME
- MICE
- BONE
- TELEPHONE
NYT Strands Today (game #264) – hint #3 – spangram
What’s a hint for today’s spangram?
• Just look at a map
NYT Strands today (game #264) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are the two sides of the board that today’s spangram comes into contact with?
First: left, 5th row
Last: right, 4th row
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands Today (Game #264) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #264, are…
- CURVATURE
- MOBILE
- BUFFALO
- RIVER
- PHOENIX
- BOULDER
- SPANGRAM: CITY NAME
- My rating: Stupid
- My score: 2 tips
There are approximately 10,000 cities in the world. There are at least a few hundred in the US alone, depending on how you define a city. And the task the NYT gave us today for Strands? Name six. That’s it. No theme or connection between them. Nothing clever, like they’re all names that are also animals (like BUFFALO and to some extent PHOENIX) or names that are also TV shows (RIVERSIDE) or names that are geological features (BOULDER) or whatever. Only six CITYNAMEs, all in the US.
I suppose the only thing that ties them together is that they are all something other than just proper names; New York, Miami or Chicago wouldn’t work that way. But it is still going a bit too far to call CITYNAME a unifying theme.
That lack of a real concept behind it made it difficult to solve. I got BEND first and then MOBILE, and neither particularly screamed “You have to include American city names,” even taking into account the theme prompt “This is the place!”. Yes, I know both are cities, and it even occurred to me as a possible connection, but I dismissed it as silly. Little did I know…
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands Answers (Thursday, November 21, Game #263)
- POKER
- CHIMNEY
- BROOM
- SMOKE
- FIREPLACE
- SCREEN
- MANTEL
- SPANGRAM: FIREPLACE
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, after Wordle and Connections. It is now out of beta so is a full member of the NYT’s stable of games and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I have a full guide to playing NYT Strands, complete with troubleshooting tips, so give that a read if you’re struggling to beat it every day.
