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, January 16 (game #684).
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 #685) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… That’s putting it mildly!
NYT Strands today (game #685) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- TARN
- PONY
- RATE
- PHASE
- SACKED
- CAKE
NYT Strands today (game #685) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 11 letters
NYT Strands today (game #685) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: bottom, 1st column
Last side: top, 4th column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #685) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #685, are…
- DRAT
- CURSES
- FIDDLESTICKS
- TARNATION
- PHOOEY
- SPANGRAM: FOILEDAGAIN
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I love a polite swearword. If you hear someone curse “fudge” or “sugar” it is firstly very funny, but secondly also pointless because everyone knows what you are really trying to say.
Perhaps a better option is to come up with something a bit more creative, like calling someone the son of an aardvark or yelling peanuts when you accidentally hurt yourself. There is a brilliant story a UK journalist called Jon Ronson wrote about being asked by his son what the worst swearword in the world was, and he randomly replied “limone” – it worked, for a while, until one day he returned home from school and called his father a very, very rude word for lying to him.
Anyway, I digress. A great, fun search in which I thankfully was not FOILEDAGAIN.
