Are you looking for a different day?
A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone, which means some people are always playing “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s.” If you are instead looking for the Thursday puzzle then click here: NYT Strands Tips and Answers for Thursday, May 21 (Game #809).
Strands is the latest NYT word game after Wordle, Spelling Bee, and Connections, and it’s a lot of fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands suggestions.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections Today and Quordle Today pages for tips and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle Today page for the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s NYT Strands info is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands Today (Game #810) – Track #1 – Today’s Topic
What’s the topic of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands topic is… Leave your period
NYT Strands Today (Game #810) – Clue #2 – Keywords
Play any of these words to unlock the game’s hint system.
- SAVE
- BITEN
- DISTRESS
- PASTE
- MITE
- TO THE
NYT Strands today (set #810) – track #3 – spangram lyrics
How many letters are there in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 6 letters.
NYT Strands today (game #810) – clue #4 – spangram position
What are the two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First side: left, fifth row
Last side: right, fifth row
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands Today (Game #810): The Answers
The answers to today’s Strands game #810 are…
- UNLIMITED
- VAST
- EPIC
IMMENSE - GREAT
- ASTRONOMICAL
- SPANGRAM: ITSBIG
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 track
Today’s search was for words that describe something huge, tied together with the ironically small spangram ITSBIG.
Before I properly started today’s game, I wasted a ridiculous amount of time trying to put the word pistachio together. After abandoning this search, I saw BOUNDLESS, but I still wasn’t sure about the theme, so I took a hint, which made me feel really dumb for not spotting the theme.
Today’s search contains one of my most hated words in WHOPPING, which is only used by journalists in relation to large amounts of money. It’s such a cliché word. Its purpose is to indicate that the sum in question is staggeringly enormous, but if that is the case, then why do we need the word FRONTIER in front of it to tell us so? Surely its enormity would already be evident; After all, “a million dollars” is exactly the same as “a FRIO million dollars.” It’s a very low-level irritation, I admit!
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Strands (Thursday, May 21, Game #809)
- WOOL
- SATIN
- VELVET
- COTTON
- SILK
- DENIM
- WOOL
- LINEN
- SPANGRAM: FABRICS
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new word game, after Wordle and Connections. It is now a full member of the NYT Games group that has been running for a year and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I have a complete guide on how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check it out if you’re struggling to beat it every day.
