Looking for a different day?
A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, November 5 (game #977).
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 NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #978) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Autumn walk in the woods
NYT Strands today (game #978) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- SHORE
- GROSS
- SLAVE
- PENCE
- VALE
- CHART
- FLAT
- FATAL
NYT Strands today (game #978) – hint #3 – spangram letters
How many letters are in today’s spangram?
NYT Strands today (game #978) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
• First side:top, 1st column
• Last side:bottom, 3rd column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #978) – the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #978, are…
- HUSK
- LEAVES
- MOSS
- PINECONE
- ACORN
- TWIG
- BRANCH
- SPANGRAM: FORESTFLOOR
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 hint
Once I got the spangram this game became quite easy, with ACORN and TWIG running alongside it, but it was far from a walk in the woods up to this point.
Fortunately, while I struggled to find some autumnal words I did find plenty of non-game words, so took a hint. HUSK wasn’t the easiest of starters, but from here the rest of the game made sense.
Autumn-ness has become quite the trend in recent years. After decades of being in the shadow of the other seasons it is almost as if Autumn hired itself a PR company to make us feel as if we can’t live without pumpkin spice lattes, cozy fires and oversized scarves.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday, November 5, game #977)
- WIND
- BREAD
- FAITH
- GROUND
- DANCING
- CHARACTER
- SPANGRAM: GIVEMEABREAK
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
