NYT Strands Today — Hints, Answers and Spangram for Wednesday, July 24 (Game #143)
Here are your Thursday Strands from the NYT, guaranteed to get you thinking. It certainly got my gray matter working. Below are hints if you need them.
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 #143) – Hint #1 – Today’s Theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• The theme of today’s NYT Strands is… Screen time
NYT Strands Today (Contest #143) – Hint #2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the hint system in the game.
- PORT
- TIRADE
- MATE
- COVER
- FIVE
- BED SHEET
NYT Strands Today (Contest #143) – Hint #3 – Spangram
What’s a hint for today’s spangram?
• Photo house
NYT Strands Today (Contest #143) – Hint #4 – Spangram Position
Which two sides of the board are affected by today’s spangram?
• First: top, 4th column
• Last: bottom, 3rd column
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands Today (Contest #143) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Strands question, game #143, are…
- SWEETS
- POPCORN
- FUNCTION
- PROJECTOR
- TRAILERS
- SPANGRAM: CINEMA
- My score: Moderate
- My score: 1 tip
I don’t know if this is a really easy one and I wasn’t quite there yet, or if it’s a moderately difficult one. I went with the latter because the theme clue was vague enough that I needed that one hint to get me going.
That gave me CANDY, and apart from a brief flirtation with the idea that it might be actors – not helped by the fact that the word ACTOR could be made into the grid – I was able to figure out the rest pretty quickly. POPCORN was the key; once I had that, it was obvious what the theme was, and I figured out the remaining solutions soon after.
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Answers from yesterday’s NYT Strands (Tuesday, July 23, Contest #142)
- SUPERLATIVE
- EXCELLENT
- ICONIC
- PERFECT
- SUPREME
- SPANGRAM: CHAMPION
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 stable of games 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.
