NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, May 17 (game #75)
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It’s Friday, the sun is shining (where I am at least) and it’s a fine day to play Strands, the NYT’s new-ish word game. If you haven’t played before and have landed here curious to see what it’s about, check out myWhat is NYT Strands?hub. If you already know all about it, read on for my hints and to see how I did today.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a dailytoday’s Wordle answercolumn and a detailedanalysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He’s alsoplayed every Wordle ever and only lost onceand yes, he takes it all too seriously.
NYT Strands today (game #75) - hint #1 - today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
•Today’s NYT Strands theme is…Looking for a mate
NYT Strands today (game #75) - hint #2 - clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
•PRIME
•LIME
•PREEN
•GOING
•CHOPS
•BETTER
NYT Strands today (game #75) - hint #3 - spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
•Singular vision
NYT Strands today (game #75) - hint #4 - spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
•First: left, 4th row
•Second: right, 3rd row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #75) - the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #75, are…
It took me a while to make a breakthrough here, but once I had the concept it wasn’t too bad. The theme clue of ‘Looking for a mate’ is nicely cryptic; it makes sense once you know that the spangram is PAIRED or identify an answer or two, but could be several other things until then. For instance, I thought it was a chess reference at first, so was delighted when I spotted ‘rook’, but that was either a coincidence or a deliberate red herring.
It was only when I randomly uncovered CHOPSTICK that I realized what was going on. Even then, it was quite hard to find other answers, because ‘things that go in pairs’ is not as obvious as some other recent Strands puzzles. However, finding the spangram made the task a bit simpler by virtue of reducing the number of permutations for many of the letters, and I eventually managed to find the other solutions.
How did you do today?Send me an emailand let me know.
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday 16 May, game #74)
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide tohow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the dailyWordle todaypage).
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