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 Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 31 (game #607).
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 #608) - hint #1 - today's theme
What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?
• Today's NYT Strands theme is… It's not polite to lick your plate
NYT Strands today (game #608) - hint #2 - clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- POUT
- GILD
- TABLE
- CLASS
- PURSE
- FATAL
NYT Strands today (game #608) - hint #3 - spangram letters
How many letters are in today's spangram?
• Spangram has 9 letters
NYT Strands today (game #608) - hint #4 - spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?
First side: top, 4th 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 #608) - the answers
The answers to today's Strands, game #608, are…
- DELICIOUS
- SCRUMPTIOUS
- FLAVORFUL
- DELECTABLE
- SPANGRAM: GOOD TASTE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 hint
There were only four words and a spangram in today’s game but we had to work hard to find them; well, I did anyway!
After finding half a dozen non-game words and mistakenly thinking our task was to find words associated with good manners, I took a hint, with DELICIOUS setting me on my way.
It took me a lot of attempts at different spelling, but I eventually found SCRUMPTIOUS – a word whose most famous appearance is in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang song Truly Scrumptious – before the far easier FLAVORFUL and DELECTABLE.
Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, October 31, game #607)
- SKULL
- FEMUR
- FIBULA
- ULNA
- RADIUS
- STERNUM
- HUMERUS
- SPANGRAM: SKELETON
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.
