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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #793).
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 #794) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Get-up-and-go!
NYT Strands today (game #794) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- DAME
- MAIN
- SAILS
- CLAIM
- PAIL
- RISK
NYT Strands today (game #794) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 12 letters
NYT Strands today (game #794) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: left, 6th row
Last side: right, 1st row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #794) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #794, are…
- SOAR
- CLIMB
- ASCEND
- SPARKLE
- SHIMMER
- RADIATE
- SPANGRAM: RISEANDSHINE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Yesterday we had DIGITALCLOCK and today we have RISEANDSHINE. Is someone at NYT receiving subliminal messages about their tardiness via the medium of Strands, I wonder? Or maybe it’s just a coincidence…
Either way, this was a great game to get the brain working at the start of the day with a few tricky spots among the more obvious ones like SOAR in the board’s key position of the top left-hand corner.
Meanwhile, please tell me I wasn’t the only one to miss that the diagonal spangram divided the game into two sets of words — rising on one side and shining on the other.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, May 5, game #793)
- ALARM
- SNOOZE
- TIME
- RADIO
- DATE
- DISPLAY
- TUNER
- SPANGRAM: DIGITALCLOCK
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.
