NYT Strands Today – Hints, Answers and Spangram for Tuesday April 16 (Game #44)

Another day, another Strands puzzle to solve courtesy of the gaming experts at the NYT. I doubt this will cause too much trouble for many of you, but if it does, just scroll down for my selection of hints and then for the answers themselves.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s NYT Strands is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Your Strands expert
Your Strands expert
Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today (game #44) – hint #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

Today’s NYT Strands theme is… On the grill

NYT Strands Today (Game #44) – Hint #2 – Clue Words

What are good keywords these days?

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

• SAT

• TASTE

• TRICE

• LISTS

• HANDLE

• THREE

NYT Strands today (game #44) – hint #3 – spangram

What’s a hint for today’s spangram?

Everyone needs them

NYT Strands Today (Game #44) – Hint #4 – Spangram Position

Where does today’s spangram begin and end?

Start: right, 3rd row

End: left, 5th row

Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands Today (Game #44) – The Answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Strands, game #44, are…

  • CABLE
  • ELECTRIC
  • WATER
  • TELEPHONE
  • HEAT
  • INTERNET
  • SPANGRAM: UTILITIES
  • My score: Simple
  • My score: Perfect

Unlike yesterday’s Strands game, today’s was easy to solve as the theme became clear once I found one answer. That word was CABLE, and together with the “On the grid” hint, that was enough to get me started. After that it was just a matter of looking for solutions; ELECTRICAL, WATER, TELEPHONE etc. I suspect many others will consider this a simple problem too…

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


Yesterday’s NYT Strands Answers (Monday April 15, Game #43)

  • PEACE
  • CALM
  • SMOKE
  • MIRRORS
  • TO GIVE
  • TO TAKE
  • PROCESS
  • WRONG
  • SPANGRAM: PARTNERS

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.

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