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.
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- CHORE
- ROOT
- BAND
- TALE
- HAND
- CHART
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 #254, are…
- ECHO
- VICTOR
- DELTA
- FOXTROT
- GOLF
- TANGO
- BRAVO
- SPANGRAM: NATOALPHABET
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 hint
I’ve used the NATOALPHABET so many times over the past month or so that those code words should be seared into my brain. I had some work done on my car, and spent seemingly hours speaking to people on the phone (garage, insurance, hire car firm etc) to give them my license plate number, my address, postal code and so on. The phonetic alphabet was the obvious way I could guarantee they got down my information properly, but I always struggled to remember some of the specifics. What was K again? KING? KITTEN? Was P PEPPER or PETER or PIGGY or PUPIL? None of them, of course – K is KILO and P is PAPA, but hey, I was never in the military…
Fortunately all of the answers in today’s Strands were ones I knew, but I did need a hint to get started. I also struggled with the spangram – finding ALPHABET early on, but not realizing it needed the NATO bit at the start until I’d completed most of the other answers. Anyway, SIERRA ECHO ECHO YANKEE OSCAR UNIFORM TANGO OSCAR MIKE OSCAR ROMEO ROMEO OSCAR WHISKEY!
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- NURSE
- DOCTOR
- SURGEON
- PHARMACIST
- DENTIST
- SPANGRAM: MEDICALCAREER