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 Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, March 9 (game #736).
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.
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NYT Strands today (game #737) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… “Hey”
NYT Strands today (game #737) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- STAGED
- MEAD
- GRAY
- MODEST
- DWELL
- SULTAN
NYT Strands today (game #737) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 7 letters
NYT Strands today (game #737) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: right, 1st row
Last side: left, 7th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #737) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #737, are…
- HELLO
- HOWDY
- WELCOME
- GREETINGS
- AHOY
- SALUTATIONS
- SPANGRAM: GOODDAY
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I am reminded of the lyrics “hell is in hello” from the musical Paint Your Wagon because this is how I began today’s game of Strands.
It comes from the song Wandering Star, which was crooned magnificently gruffly by the actor Lee Marvin, whose character preferred to leave places rather than arrive at them.
Unlike Mr Marvin, I love fancy people with ostentatious vocabulary and would love to be greeted every morning by someone, preferably a butler with a tray of tea and toast offering me SALUTATIONS.
I’m also partial to an AHOY — this was Alexander Graham Bell’s proposed telephone greeting, something his less nautically inclined telephonic rival Thomas Edison replaced with the less jaunty HELLO.
Missing from this list is the term for hello everyone used throughout my school years, the now largely redundant “watcha” and its goodbye equivalent “seeya”.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday, March 9, game #736)
- PUMPKIN
- BEAN
- MUFFIN
- NUGGET
- DUMPLING
- PEANUT
- SPANGRAM: ENDEARMENTS
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.
