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, November 19 (game #626).
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 #627) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Busybody buzz
NYT Strands today (game #627) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- TRAY
- SPORE
- HARE
- HEAD
- CUTE
- DEAR
NYT Strands today (game #627) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 13 letters
NYT Strands today (game #627) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: right, 7th 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 #627) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #627, are…
- RUMOR
- GOSSIP
- REPORT
- HEARSAY
- SPANGRAM: SPREADTHEWORD
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 hint
The theme left little doubt of what we were looking for, but after getting RUMOR and GOSSIP fairly quickly I hit a wall, so took a hint.
My hint word, REPORT, opened up HEARSAY and immediately I saw the words “spread” and “word”, although it took me until the end of the game to join them together with “the” to make up the spangram.
Getting the last word was quite the joy. What a great word SCUTTLEBUTT is – worth doing this search to find that alone – and definitely one that should return to common parlance. All this sassy talk of spilling tea and dishing the dirt, that’s all just scuttlebutt.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Wednesday, November 19, game #626)
- IMAM
- RABBI
- PROPHET
- BUDDHA
- MONK
- PRIEST
- SPANGRAM: RELIGIOUSFIGURES
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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