If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game.
Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special, word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.
If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.
Wordle today: Here’s the answer hints for September 19
NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for September 19
NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Work out the bugs
These words are a literal interpretation of the hint.
Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained
The answers are all related to tools
NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?
Today’s NYT Strands spangram is vertical.
NYT Strands spangram answer today
Today’s spangram is CreepyCrawlies.
NYT Strands word list for September 19
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Beetle
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CreepyCrawlies
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Millipede
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Spider
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Earwig
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Termite
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