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 Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, December 12 (game #649).
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.
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 #650) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… All over the place
NYT Strands today (game #650) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- WISDOM
- WHAT
- STAND
- DRUM
- THAN
- LOUT
NYT Strands today (game #650) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 9 letters
NYT Strands today (game #650) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: left, 3rd row
Last side: right, 5th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #650) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #650, are…
- STORMY
- TUMULTUOUS
- CHAOTIC
- UNRULY
- DISORDERLY
- SPANGRAM: THATSWILD
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 hint
This was one of those games where non-game words were much easier to find than the ones we were actually searching for.
After getting nowhere, I took a hint and got STORMY. Next I saw “tumult’ and continued connecting letters until I got the fantastic and rarely used TUMULTUOUS, a word that sums up our current age pretty well.
When “wild” turned out to be a non-game word I knew that it must be part of the spangram, but I didn’t see that until I completed the entire board. I know this is a word search game and punctuation is impossible, but it is hard to look at THATSWILD without the apostrophe.
