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 Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- DOLL
- WIND
- RATE
- IRATE
- NODE
- WANT
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today’s Strands, game #271, are…
- CHILL
- RELAX
- UNWIND
- PAUSE
- LOAF
- LOUNGE
- LUXURIATE
- SPANGRAM: DOWNTIME
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 hint
This was a harder Strands puzzle than many, and for that I give it praise. Nobody wants a game that’s so easy it becomes formulaic, so kudos to the NYT team for this one, which needed a bit more thought than the type that merely involve naming objects in a particular group.
Sure, the theme here – words for DOWNTIME – is no more complex than some of the others, but unless you’re a walking thesaurus you’ll have needed to get that old gray matter working in order to find them all. As it happens, I needed a hint halfway through; I simply ran out of synonyms after CHILL, RELAX, UNWIND and PAUSE. Once I had the spangram things got a lot easier, as is usually the case, and I finished a few minutes later so I could go and LUXURIATE or LOAF elsewhere…
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- TURKEY
- POTATOES
- GRAVY
- CRANBERRIES
- ROLLS
- YAMS
- SPANGRAM: LETSFEAST