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.
- SLAM
- CRAM
- AMMO
- WARN
- SHIN
- PEAS
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 #260, are…
- ORCA
- DOLPHIN
- SEAL
- MANATEE
- WALRUS
- NARWHAL
- SPANGRAM: MARINEMAMMALS
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 hint
These MARINEMAMMALS are among my favorite of all animals. There’s something about DOLPHINs, WALRUSes and SEALS that are just so appealing, and as for the slightly spooky but fascinating NARWHAL and MANATEE… they’re just great, aren’t they? I was surprised that WHALE was not among them, but otherwise all of the big stars of the marine mammal world were here.
This Strands was a tricky one to complete, though, because several of the words are unusually spelled. In fact, I used a hint for the first word, and when it gave me C, O, R and A it took me several minutes to assemble that into ORCA! I got there in the end, as I suspect most people will, because there are only so many possible answers here; getting started was tough, but there’s not a huge amount of specialist knowledge required, at least.
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- TOWER
- CASTLE
- BRIDGE
- FORT
- PALACE
- MONUMENT
- ARCH
- SPANGRAM: LANDMARKS