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Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, May 3 (game #61)

NYT Strands homescreen on a mobile phone screen, on a light blue background.

It's time for another daily dose of the NYT's Strands, the new(ish) word game that tasks you with finding the themed answers within a grid of letters. Yes, it can be tricky at times – but we all love a challenge, right? And if not, you can scroll down for some hints and the answers.

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 #61) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is… A shade envious?

NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #2 - clue words

What are some good clue words today?

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

POSIT

LOVE

TICKLE

JUICE

STAND

RUNG

NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

Eat them up to stay healthy

NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #4 - spangram position

Where does today's spangram start and end?

Start: left, 6th row

End: right, 5nd row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #61) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #61, are…

  • JUNGLE
  • PISTACHIO
  • FOREST
  • OLIVE
  • ARTICHOKE
  • EMERALD
  • SPANGRAM: GREENS

  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

This was a nice straightforward Strands game to end the working week (for me at least). The theme clue gave the game away really – the combination of 'shade' and 'envious' immediately suggested 'green' to me, so I looked for that and found the spangram right away. With the board now divided in two, the permutations for each letter were reduced, and it was a simple job to find PISTACHIO and JUNGLE at the bottom, FOREST and EMERALD at the top.

OLIVE took me a while for some reason, and I don't know if ARTICHOKE would even have occurred to me if the board hadn't been so filled in by the time I got to it, but overall this was easy pickings.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.


Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Thursday 2 May, game #60)

  • CLOWNFISH
  • SKUNK
  • CHIPMUNK
  • TIGER
  • BUMBLEBEE
  • ZEBRA
  • SPANGRAM: STRIPED

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 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.

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