NYT Strands Today — Hints, Answers and Spangram for Monday, August 5 (Game #155)
Your Strands week starts here, with a tricky episode of the NYT that you might need some help with. I certainly did…
Want more word-based fun? Check out my Wordle Today, NYT Connections Today, and Quordle Today pages for hints and answers for those games.
SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about today’s NYT Strands. So don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands Today (Game #155) – Hint #1 – Today’s Theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• The theme of today’s NYT Strands is… To roll in
NYT Strands Today (Contest #155) – Hint #2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the hint system in the game.
- TENT
- SHOW
- SHOWN
- HOL
- WEAR
- ROPE
NYT Strands Today (Contest #155) – Hint #3 – Spangram
What’s a hint for today’s spangram?
• Like Croesus
NYT Strands Today (Contest #155) – Hint #4 – Spangram Position
Which two sides of the board are affected by today’s spangram?
• First: left, 6th row
• Last: right, 3rd row
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands Today (Contest #155) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Strands question, game #155, are…
- MONEY
- RICH
- LUSH
- RICH
- PROSPEROUS
- SPANGRAM: DATSRICH
- My score: Difficult
- My score: 3 tips
Today’s Strands was a really tough one that required a lot of clues – three to be exact. The first one was a good start for me, as I had no idea what ‘Rolling in it’ referred to. That got me MONEYED (although it took me a while to figure out what the word was, even after the Strands board had highlighted it for me), but while the concept was now clear, the other words were not.
To make matters worse, I saw RICH pretty early on, but couldn’t figure out what the rest of the sentence was to (probably) make the spangram. I ended up solving THATSRICH by default at the end, after using two more hints to figure out OPULENT and AFFLUENT.
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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Strands (Sunday, August 4, Contest #154)
- RING
- MIDDLE
- PALM
- LITTLE FINGER
- THUMB
- CUTICLE
- NAIL
- WISER
- SPANGRAM: AT HAND
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the new word game from the NYT, after Wordle and Connections. It is now out of beta and is therefore a full member of the NYT games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I have a complete guide to playing NYT Strands, complete with tips to solve the game. If you are having a hard time beating the game every day, you can definitely check it out.
