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 Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, February 18 (game #717).
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 #718) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Here’s a thought
NYT Strands today (game #718) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- THEY
- TOKEN
- PURSE
- HIDE
- SCOPE
- SHOP
NYT Strands today (game #718) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 6 letters
NYT Strands today (game #718) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: left, 4th 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 #718) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #718, are…
- IDEA
- HYPOTHESIS
- CONCEPT
- POSTULATE
- THEORY
- NOTION
- SPANGRAM: EUREKA
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I once visited a museum which demonstrated Archimedes’ realization that water displacement could measure volume — a moment that caused him to run around the streets of Ancient Greece shouting EUREKA — by having a slowly filling bath suspended above visitors’ heads.
Once the bath reached the critical moment, anyone stood beneath the bath would get soaked — a quarter-hourly occurrence which delighted visiting children.
This memory didn’t help me with my own (fully-clothed) EUREKA moment during today’s search, but it was a fun that that helped me travel around the remainder of the board, postulating a THEORY that future Eureka moments courtesy of AI are likely to be far less amusing.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Wednesday, February 18, game #717)
- LUGE
- BOBSLED
- SNOWBOARDING
- HOCKEY
- CURLING
- SPANGRAM: WINTERSPORTS
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.
