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NYT Strands game #927: hints without the spoilers
A four-step hint ladder for Wednesday's Strands puzzle, starting with the theme and stopping before the answers.
In brief
A four-step hint ladder for Wednesday's Strands puzzle, starting with the theme and stopping before the answers. Today's Strands theme is "Hard not to notice", and you can take hints one rung at a time instead of jumping to the answer grid. Originally reported by TechRadar.
Four rungs, then answers
The page is built as a ladder: theme first, then clue words, then the spangram's letters, then where the spangram sits. Stop climbing whenever it clicks.
Your today is not their today
A fresh Strands drops at midnight in your own time zone, so half the internet is solving a puzzle you finished yesterday. Game #926 from Tuesday has its own page.
“some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'”
The newest NYT word game
Strands is the latest addition after Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections. It is genuinely fun, and genuinely hard enough that hint pages exist.
“Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections”
The rest of the daily rotation
Same site, same treatment for Connections and Quordle, plus a separate Wordle page run by Marc. One tab per game if you are a completionist.
Spoilers start here
A hard warning sits above the hints. Everything past that line gives away part or all of game #927, so close the tab if you want a clean solve.
“SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below”
Today's theme: hard not to notice
Hint #1 for game #927 is "Hard not to notice". Think of things that grab attention on sight, then hunt the grid for words that fit that idea.
“Today's NYT Strands theme is… Hard not to notice”
The essence
Today's Strands theme is "Hard not to notice", and you can take hints one rung at a time instead of jumping to the answer grid.
