If you’re reading this, you’re probably looking for a little help playing Strands. The New York Times‘ Advanced word search game.
In Strands, players must perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from interlocking letters – up, down, left, right or diagonally – but words can also be rotated, resulting in strange shapes and patterns. Every letter in the grid becomes part of the answer. Every answer is always thematically related and has a “spangram”, a special word or phrase that sums up the day’s theme and covers the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
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By giving unclear hints and not providing a word list, Strands creates a brain teaser game that takes a bit longer to play than other games like Wordle or Connections.
If you get stuck or can’t spare more than 10 minutes to solve today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to work through it at your preferred pace.
Today’s theme tips from NYT Strands:
When you hear these words, your eyes will roll.
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A simple explanation of today’s NYT Strands theme
The answers all have to do with tennis.
NYT Strands Spanglam Tips: Vertical or Horizontal?
Today’s NYT Strands Spangles are horizontal.
NYT Strand Spangham’s Answers of the Day
Today’s Spangram is Grand slam.
August 26th NYT Strands Word List
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love
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smash
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racket
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Grand Slam
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forehand
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slice
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serve
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Volley
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Not the day you were hoping for? Here’s Strands’ solution from yesterday:
