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.
- SHUN
- SOUND
- PALE
- SHARE
- FEED
- ZINC
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 #265, are…
- BANG
- HONK
- SIZZLE
- CRASH
- CRUNCH
- JINGLE
- KAPOW
- SPANGRAM: SOUNDEFFECTS
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I always thought it would be fun to be a SOUNDEFFECTS engineer. Imagine working on Batman in the 1960s and coming up with all of the noises made during the fight scenes – it would have been hilarious. Or maybe that’s just me. And now I’m wondering if on my next call with the TechRadar team I should introduce the odd CRASH or HONK when someone says something particularly interesting/stupid.
Anyway, this was a reasonably good Strands game, as they go, and certainly a lot more worthy of your time (and mine) than yesterday’s pointless exercise. It’s still pretty simple, though; will there ever be a Strands game that I’ll need to use my brain for? Will I ever lose one? Time will tell, but my suspicion is that no, the NYT likes Strands to be the simple counterpart to the far more difficult likes of Connections, Spelling Bee and indeed Wordle.
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- BEND
- MOBILE
- BUFFALO
- RIVERSIDE
- PHOENIX
- BOULDER
- SPANGRAM: CITYNAME