NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, September 5 (game #186)

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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, September 5 (game #186)

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

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

Your Strands expert

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Marc McLaren

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NYT Strands today (game #186) – hint #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Going underground

NYT Strands today (game #186) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• PUNT
• BRUNT
• GATE
• TAROT
• LETTER
• PRUNE

NYT Strands today (game #186) – hint #3 – spangram

What is a hint for today’s spangram?

• Dig them up

NYT Strands today (game #186) – hint #4 – spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?

First: right, 7th row

Last: left, 5th row

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

NYT Strands today (game #186) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Strands, game #186, are…

• POTATO
• TURNIP
• BEET
• TARO
• RUTABAGA
• JICAMA
• SPANGRAM: ROOTVEGETABLES

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• My rating: Difficult
• My score: 1 hint

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I love root vegetables, but I will confess that I have never heard of JICAMA, have only vaguely heard of TARO, know RUTABAGA by its more common (outside of North America) name of swede and know BEET by its more common (in the *** at least) name of BEETROOT. In summary… I found this one to be pretty tough!

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JICAMA was the only one I actually needed a hint for, because the combination of the theme clue and my stumbling upon POTATO by accident was enough for me to get started. TURNIP was an obvious one, and I know enough about BEETs thank to the US Office (thanks, Dwight!) to guess that one.

I then got the spangram, which gave me TARO by default (and with a little trial and error). That just left JICAMA and RUTABAGA; I used a hint, which gave me JICAMA, and solved that after trying multiple combinations of letters until one proved to be correct. RUTABAGA needed a similar approach; swede would have been much easier, frankly…

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

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Wednesday 4 September, game #185)

• ARCHES
• GLACIER
• REDWOOD
• SAGUARO
• BADLANDS
• SPANGRAM: NATIONALPARKS

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What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the

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I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.

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