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, August 11 (game #526).
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.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.
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 #527) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Spitting image
NYT Strands today (game #527) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- PORE
- LIKE
- FELT
- SCALE
- DITCH
- PLACES
NYT Strands today (game #527) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 8 letters
NYT Strands today (game #527) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: left, 4th row
Last side: right, 6th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #527) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #527, are…
- DOUBLE
- DUPLICATE
- LOOKALIKE
- REPLICA
- FACSIMILE
- SPANGRAM: COPY THAT
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 hint
Today’s Strands was fiendishly tricky, in part because of the length of the words.
The theme gave me a big clue towards what we were searching for, but I still needed a hint to get started.
After being gifted DOUBLE I spotted COPY and THAT separately as non-game words before splicing them together to make up the Spangram.
I love the idea of doppelgangers roaming the world, unaware of a REPLICA version living their lives thousands of miles away. When I was a kid, my dad bought back a holiday brochure that had what I thought was a photo of my mother and sister on the front cover – except it wasn’t.
That brochure was shown to anyone who visited for years and they were all aghast at the similarity. Recently, on a visit home I found it in a drawer and was shocked how unlike them the photo was – I’d just been seduced by the idea of it.
I wonder if my doppelganger is playing Strands right now…
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday, August 11, game #526)
- DREGS
- SOUVENIR
- TRACE
- RESIDUE
- VESTIGE
- REMNANT
- SPANGRAM: LEFTOVERS
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.
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