NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, May 2 (game #60)
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Another day, another chance to solve the NYT’s fiendishly difficult new word game Strands. OK, maybe ‘fiendishly difficult’ is an exaggeration – but it definitely can be tough. If you’re a little stumped by today’s game you can scroll down for some hopefully helpful hints to get you going.
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 #60) - hint #1 - today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
•Today’s NYT Strands theme is…What’s my line?
NYT Strands today (game #60) - hint #2 - clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
•BRAIN
•SHIP
•KNOCK
•CLOWN
•FISH
•PRANK
NYT Strands today (game #60) - hint #3 - spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
•You won’t spot this pattern
NYT Strands today (game #60) - hint #4 - spangram position
Where does today’s spangram start and end?
•Start: left, 7th row
•End: right, 2nd row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #60) - the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #60, are…
I blame myself (a little) for my difficulty in solving today’s Strands puzzle. The clue – What’s my line? – is quite obtuse, admittedly, but when I found CLOWNFISH early on I should have put two and two together. Instead – and please go easy on me, I was feeling a little tired when I played – I got hung up on thinking it was a reference toFinding Nemo. I know, I know… but it seemed to fit at the time.
My task wasn’t helped by finding SKUNK and then CHIPMUNK next, because I wouldn’t associate either of those with being striped. In fact, they further convinced me that this was something about animated animals. What a fool.
It was only when I uncovered TIGER and BUMBLEBEE – still purely by chance at this stage – that things became clearer. I had revealed so much of the board by now that I could hardly fail to miss STRIPED, and the other answers followed soon after.
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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Wednesday 1 May, game #59)
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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