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 Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, February 24 (game #723).
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 #724) - hint #1 - today's theme
What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?
• Today's NYT Strands theme is… That's really out there!
NYT Strands today (game #724) - hint #2 - clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- TIRE
- TRADE
- VERSO
- BORE
- SLANDER
- LIBEL
NYT Strands today (game #724) - hint #3 - spangram letters
How many letters are in today's spangram?
• Spangram has 10 letters
NYT Strands today (game #724) - hint #4 - spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?
First side: left, 6th row
Last side: right, 6th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #724) - the answers
The answers to today's Strands, game #724, are…
- PROBE
- ROVER
- SATELLITE
- LANDER
- MODULE
- ORBITER
- SPANGRAM: SPACECRAFT
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
My first thought when I saw the theme was The X Files and its tagline “the truth is out there”. I was wrong of course, but SPACECRAFT wasn’t too far off the mark.
Either way, the mystery was short. Like many Strands players I begin in the corners and this gave me easy finds of both PROBE and ROVER, prompting a search for other pieces of space hardware NASA may be sending on its mission to the Moon.
Meanwhile, the word SATELLITE prompted me to recall one of my favorite songs — A New England by Billy Bragg (although I prefer Kirsty MacColl’s version) and the lines “I saw two shooting stars last night / I wished on them but they were only satellites / It’s wrong to wish on space hardware / I wish, I wish, wish you’d care”. That song was written in the early 1980s when there were significantly fewer satellites than there are today. Now, look up into the night sky and you’ll see dozens of them keeping a track on our movements.
Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, February 24, game #723)
- ENCYCLOPEDIA
- DIRECTORY
- THESAURUS
- DICTIONARY
- SPANGRAM: LOOKITUP
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.
