Today’s NYT Strains Hints and Answers for August 4, #154
Strands isn’t as popular as Wordle or Connections from the New York Times, but it’s just as entertaining and challenging. Strands has just been released from beta and is now available in the New York Times official Games App. This could bring more fans to it. In this article, I explain the rules of Strands. Need more answers? Here are the answers to today’s Wordle and today’s Connections. Here’s the answer for today.
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Today’s Strands theme is:
In glove.If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue. Here’s today’s answer for that.
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Hint for today’s Strands puzzle
- Today’s Strands theme is:
In glove.
If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Not foot, but…
- Clue words to unlock in-game hints
Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. Find any words that you can if you are stuck. Strands will reveal a theme word every time you find 3 words with 4 letters or more. The words that I used for the hints are listed below, but you can use any four-letter words that you come across:
GRIP PANE PARE PAIL CUTE CITE RITE NOTE LITE MIND BANK PINK POINT COIN DUMB HANK COTE TILE PORT DRINK BINK.Answers to today’s Strands PuzzleThese answers are related to the theme. The aim of the puzzle, which is to find all of them, as well as the spangram (a theme word that runs from one side to the other of the board), is to do so. Here are the nonspangram answers:
NAIL, PALM, RING PINKY THUMB, MIDDLE CUTICLE POINTER
Today’s Strands spangram is
ON HAND. To find it start with the O that is five letters down on the far left and wind up and over. Here are the nonspangram answers:
NAIL, PALM, RING, PINKY, THUMB, MIDDLE, CUTICLE, POINTERToday’s Strands spangram
Today’s Strands spangram is ON HAND. To find it, start with the O that’s five letters down on the far left, and wind up and over.The completed New York Times Strands puzzle for Aug. 4.
Screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNETHow to play NYT Strands
1.01001010 Use today’s theme to look for words relating to that topic. Screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET01001010How to play NYT Strands010010101.01001010 Use today’s theme to look for words relating that topic. Drag or click on the letters to order them. To submit your guess, click twice on the final letter. If you’ve found a theme word, it’ll light up in blue and stay that way.010010102.01001010 Other words you find are considered hint words that give you clues to the theme words. The game will show you the theme word if you find three hint words. They must all have four letters. But if you can’t unscramble it, find three more hint words and the game will highlight the theme word’s letters in order.010010103.01001010 Hunt for the 01001010spangram01001010, a special theme word that spans the entire puzzle, though it could flow across or top to bottom. It summarizes the puzzle theme.010010104.01001010 When you’re done, you’ll have used every letter on the board in either a theme word or spangram. The theme words must fill the board completely and not overlap. 01001010
