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Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, August 5 (game #155)

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

Your Strands week starts here, with a difficult instalment from the NYT that you may well need some help with. I certainly did…

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

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

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is… Rolling in it

NYT Strands today (game #155) - hint #2 - clue words

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

  • TENT
  • TONE
  • TONED
  • LAIR
  • WEAR
  • ROPE

NYT Strands today (game #155) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

Like Croesus

NYT Strands today (game #155) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First: left, 6th row

Last: 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 #155) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #155, are…

  • MONEYED
  • WEALTHY
  • OPULENT
  • AFFLUENT
  • PROSPEROUS
  • SPANGRAM: THATSRICH

  • My rating: Hard
  • My score: 3 hints

Today's Strands was a really tough one that I needed lots of hints for – three, to be exact. The first got me started, because I had zero idea what 'Rolling in it' referred to. That gave me MONEYED (although it took me a while to work out what the word was even once the Strands board had highlighted it for me), but though the concept was now clear, the other words weren't.

To make matters worse, I spotted RICH fairly early on, but couldn't work out what the rest of the phrase was to (presumably) make the spangram. I eventually solved THATSRICH at the end by default, having used two further hints to uncover OPULENT and AFFLUENT.

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


Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday 4 August, game #154)

  • RING
  • MIDDLE
  • PALM
  • PINKY
  • THUMB
  • CUTICLE
  • NAIL
  • POINTER
  • SPANGRAM: ONHAND

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable 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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