NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, October 4 (game #215)

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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, October 4 (game #215)

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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Your Strands expert

Marc McLaren

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NYT Strands today (game #215) – hint #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Driver’s catch-all

NYT Strands today (game #215) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• SLIM
• ******
• MIRE
• BRAIL
• BRAT
• TORE

NYT Strands today (game #215) – hint #3 – spangram

What is a hint for today’s spangram?

• Mobile storage

NYT Strands today (game #215) – hint #4 – spangram position

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

First: top, 4th column

Last: bottom, 1st column

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

NYT Strands today (game #215) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Strands, game #215, are…

• TITLE
• ATLAS
• FLARE
• MANUAL
• QUARTER
• REGISTRATION
• SPANGRAM: GLOVEBOX

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• My rating: Moderate
• My score: 3 hints

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I’m sorry but this Strands puzzle does not work. Or rather, it does not work for me. At all. The spangram/theme is GLOVEBOX, but of the six things listed for it, only one would be found within mine. MANUAL? No, that’s on an app – it’s not 2015 any more. ATLAS? Are you serious? It’s not 2010. Have you not heard of

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Maps! FLARE? Er, no, that sounds dangerous. QUARTER? One, I’m not in the US, so of course not. Two, I don’t use coins any more, it’s not 2018.

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This whole puzzle is just bizarre from my point of view. Look inside my glovebox and you’d find some boiled sweets, a scraper for the windscreen, a battery charge pack and that’s about it. There may be cultural differences at play here, admittedly, but that made it all rather difficult to solve and I needed three hints to complete the game.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday 3 October, game #214)

• ******
• BUZZ
• FLATTOP
• PAGEBOY
• FADE
• *****
• FAUXHAWK
• SPANGRAM: SHORTCUTS

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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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on desktop or mobile.

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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