# Strands #924: today's theme is Top secret

> Hints for Sunday's NYT Strands, from the midnight reset down to the theme itself.
- Title: Strands #924: today's theme is Top secret · TechRadar
- Summary: Hints for Sunday's NYT Strands, from the midnight reset down to the theme itself. Sunday's Strands board is game #924, and the theme is Top secret.
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- Source: TechRadar — https://techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-13-september-2026
- Published: 2026-09-12T23:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: nyt strands, word games, puzzle hints, nyt, daily puzzle, technology
## Sunday's board is #924
Strands rolls over at midnight in your own time zone, so one reader's today is another's yesterday. Sunday, September 13 is game #924.

> A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone
## Still on Saturday's puzzle
If you landed here a day behind, the write-up for game #923, Saturday, September 12, is linked at the top of the page.
## What Strands actually is
It is the newest word game in the NYT stable, sitting alongside Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections. Fun, but it bites often enough that hints exist.

> Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections
## The rest of the lineup
Same site, same day: hint pages for Connections and Quordle, plus Marc's Wordle page for the game that started the whole habit.
## Four hints, then answers
The page steps down in stages: theme first, then clue words, spangram letters, spangram position, and only then the full solution. Stop at the rung you need.

> SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below
## Hint one: Top secret
That is the whole theme for game #924. Read the grid looking for things hidden, classified or kept quiet, and the spangram should start to surface.

> Today's NYT Strands theme is… Top secret
## Key takeaway

Sunday's Strands board is game #924, and the theme is Top secret.