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Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, August 3 (game #153)

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

Here's another easy-ish Strands puzzle for you. Or is it? It probably depends on a) your knowledge of the specific subject and b) how your brain is working today. It is a weekend, after all. There are hints below if you need them.

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

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is… A night at the museum

NYT Strands today (game #153) - hint #2 - clue words

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

  • SHIN
  • SHUN
  • CALM
  • DIVER
  • RELY
  • TRICE

NYT Strands today (game #153) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

Creativity through time

NYT Strands today (game #153) - hint #4 - spangram position

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

First: top, 3rd column

Last: bottom, 4th column

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

NYT Strands today (game #153) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #153, are…

  • BAROQUE
  • MODERN
  • ROMANTIC
  • CLASSICAL
  • MEDIEVAL
  • SPANGRAM: ARTHISTORY

  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

I solved this one in rather a roundabout way, getting the spangram first then finding the individual answers, but if not I might well have struggled. The theme clue of 'A night at the museum' didn't suggest ARTHISTORY or the likes of ROMANTIC and BAROQUE to me; I was thinking dinosaurs and romans and mummies and so on…

Still, with ARTHISTORY in place it became obvious what kind of words I needed to find, and I ticked them all off with a minimum of fuss from there.

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


Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday 2 August, game #152)

  • ABOVE
  • THROUGH
  • BESIDE
  • UNDERNEATH
  • BETWEEN
  • AMONG
  • SPANGRAM: LOCATION

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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