This page contains Strands hints and answers for puzzle #773. Click on each group depending if you want to reveal the words you can use to get a hint; the theme words; or the spangram.
You can also use our board clues if you wish to see the first letter of each theme word, and the direction in which that word travels. You can also see the first and last letter of the spangram and where it is placed on the board.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead on click!!!
Hints and answers for yesterday’s Strands
Board clues
Reveal the starting letter of each theme word and the direction in which the theme word travels. You can also click to reveal the first and last letter of the Spangram on the board below.
Today there are 6 theme words and the Spangram.
About Yesterday’s NYT Strands
The best word puzzles teach you something about language. Wordle teaches you letter frequency. Connections teaches you to distrust your first instinct. Strands teaches you something slightly different: that words have shapes, and that your eye, given enough time, learns to find them.
The grid looks chaotic until it doesn’t. That’s the experience every Strands player recognizes: when the theme clicks, and suddenly the board that looked like random letters reveals itself as a precisely engineered set of interlocking paths.
The editors construct each puzzle so that every letter is accounted for, which means the grid contains no noise. Everything you see belongs somewhere. That knowledge, once you internalise it, changes how you look at the board entirely.
The Spangram is the puzzle’s master key. Find it and the chaos organises itself around it. Don’t find it and you can still solve the puzzle, but you’ll feel it working against you the whole way through.