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 Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, August 20 (game #535).
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 #536) - hint #1 - today's theme
What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?
• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Marvel-ous and then some
NYT Strands today (game #536) - hint #2 - clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- POWER
- STORE
- RIVER
- THINK
- ROAD
- HIRE
NYT Strands today (game #536) - hint #3 - spangram letters
How many letters are in today's spangram?
• Spangram has 11 letters
NYT Strands today (game #536) - 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 #536) - the answers
The answers to today's Strands, game #536, are…
- HULK
- WOLVERINE
- STORM
- DAREDEVIL
- THING
- ROGUE
- SPANGRAM: SUPERHEROES
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I spotted the spangram SUPERHEROES first, before I went looking for characters from the Marvel universe – a nice touch to have the letters form an S shape.
I have trouble remembering who is part of the DC family and who is Marvel (apologies) and the one I was certain of – Spider-Man – was not part of the search (quite possibly because of that pesky hyphen).
I needn’t have worried, as you didn’t need to have any comic book knowledge to complete today’s search; none of the words were particular tricky to unravel and required little expertise.
That said, I did get the two most famous first, in HULK and WOLVERINE, before progressing to the lower tier of superherodom.
Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Wednesday, August 20, game #535)
- EURO
- PESO
- RAND
- POUND
- RUPEE
- DOLLAR
- SPANGRAM: GLOBAL CURRENCY
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.
