Looking for a different day?
A new NEW Strands puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play ‘today’s game’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for the Wednesday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Wednesday, March 4 (Game #731).
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game, following the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult though, so read on for my Strands tips.
SPOILER ALERT: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NEW Strands today (game #732) – tip #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NEW Strands theme is… Is that it?
NEW Strands Today (Game #732) – Hint #2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the in-game hint system.
- THING
- THANKS
- STEAM
- PART
- PARTY
- HAIL
NEW Strands today (game #732) – tip #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are there in today’s spangram?
• Spangram has 9 letters
NEW Strands today (game #732) – tip #4 – spangram position
What two sides of the board do today’s spangram touch?
First page: left, 2nd row
Last page: right, 5th row
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Strands today (game #732) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #732, are…
- WEIGHTLESS
- MARRIED
- TOTAL
- SCANT
- PIDDING
- SUBJECT
- SPANGRAM: THANK YOU
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Failed (sort of)
I can’t help but feel that Strand’s Spangram is a bit of an afterthought some days. The concept today was essentially ‘small amounts’ but GEETHANKS is a bit of a stretch as a phrase to describe the theme.
Anyway, I needed a hint to get started today, but once I got PUNY it was pretty obvious what was going on and I set about finding these SCANTE and MEAGER words. The problem was that these kinds of puzzles are hard — give me a Strands that involves me thinking of words associated with basketball or birthday cakes or dogs or doors and I’ll be fine; give me one that basically requires the use of a thesaurus and I’m just not that interested.
To make matters worse, WEIRD is basically an almost impossible word to spot when it’s messed up. So I cheated and used an anagram solver because honestly, life is too short to use it this way. Maybe I’m just in a bad mood today…
Yesterday’s NYT Strand’s Answer (Wednesday, March 4, Game #731)
- SUGAR
- FLOUR
- VANILLA
- LIGHT
- FROSTING
- COCOA
- SPANGRAM: REAR GEAR
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new-anymore word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now a full-fledged member of NYT’s game stable that’s been running for a year and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I have a full guide on how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips to solve it, so check it out if you struggle to beat it every day.
