Looking for a different day?
A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, April 27 (game #420).
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 NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.
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 #421) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… My bad!
NYT Strands today (game #421) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- BLADE
- NUMB
- DIAL
- POWER
- STEAL
- HOOPS
NYT Strands today (game #421) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 13 letters
NYT Strands today (game #421) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: right, 4th row
Last side: left, 8th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #421) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #421, are…
- SPILL
- TOPPLE
- SLIP
- FALTER
- BLUNDER
- STUMBLE
- SPANGRAM: WHOOPSIE DAISY
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I am such a clumsy person that if I enter a store filled with breakable objects I will immediately reverse back out. Once, fearful of my propensity towards calamity, I removed my backpack in a souvenir store and in the process it grazed against a display of lucky china cats, which cascaded to the floor, breaking about six of them.
I did not BLUNDER through today’s search, though. In fact, it was one of the easiest for a while and one of those rare editions of Strands where finding the hint words for this page was tougher than finding the answers.
The Spangram was quite a throwback, the sort of thing an elderly aunt might say. It wasn’t what came out of my mouth when I knocked over those cats and cursed myself for life.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Sunday, April 27, game #420)
- MASK
- EARPLUGS
- MELATONIN
- MEDITATION
- MOUTHGUARD
- SPANGRAM: BEDTIME
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
