NYT Strands Today – Hints, Answers and Spangram for Wednesday May 1st (Game #59)
New month, same old (relatively new) NYT Strands. This means a grid of 6×8 letters, in which there are a number of answers, grouped around a theme. It’s brought to you by the folks behind Wordle and Connections, and it’s kind of hard. Read on for some tips.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s NYT Strands is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #59) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… A token of our appreciation
NYT Strands Today (Game #59) – Hint #2 – Clue Words
What are good keywords these days?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hint system.
• BIRTH
• KNEES
• ARROW
• TO SHINE
• THREAD
• LOWER
NYT Strands today (game #59) – hint #3 – spangram
What’s a hint for today’s spangram?
• Pass go
NYT Strands Today (Game #59) – Hint #4 – Spangram Position
Where does today’s spangram begin and end?
• Start: top, 4th column
• End: bottom, 6th column
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands Today (Game #59) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #59, are…
- THIMBLE
- IRON
- SHIP
- WHEELBARROW
- RACE CAR
- PENGUIN
- SPANGRAM: MONOPOLY
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
I loved MONOPOLY as a kid, although my sisters probably didn’t like the zeal with which I would routinely put them out of business. Anyway, this was a fun Strands puzzle, albeit not too taxing.
Four letter words are the easiest to find in Strands, so it always helps to have a few among the answers. The two hidden in today’s puzzle – IRON and SHIP – were enough for me to confirm what the theme was here, added to the hint of ‘A token of our appreciation’.
The only problem was that I have no idea what the tokens in MONOPOLY are these days. When was a PENGUIN added? But finding the spangram was very easy once I knew what I was looking for, and that pointed the way to THIMBLE and RACECAR once the board had some structure.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands Answers (Tuesday, April 30, Game #58)
- MAYO
- TZATZIKI
- KETCHUP
- SRIRACHA
- AIOLI
- MUSTARD
- SPANGRAM: NAIL
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, after Wordle and Connections. It is currently in beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I have a full guide to playing NYT Strands, complete with troubleshooting tips, so give that a read if you’re struggling to beat it every day.