NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, August 12 (game #162)

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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, August 12 (game #162)

Today’s Strands puzzle is a reasonably tough one, so read on for my hints below – or the answers if you get really stuck.

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 #162) – hint #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Everybody cut footloose!

NYT Strands today (game #162) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• SPIRE
• SPIKE
• LOVE
• LOVED
• LOSS
• MORE

NYT Strands today (game #162) – hint #3 – spangram

What is a hint for today’s spangram?

• Get your moves on

NYT Strands today (game #162) – hint #4 – spangram position

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

First: top, 5th column

Last: bottom, 2nd column

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

NYT Strands today (game #162) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Strands, game #162, are…

• FLOSS
• TWERK
• MOONWALK
• VOGUE
• HUSTLE
• PIROUETTE
• SPANGRAM: DANCEMOVES

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• My rating: Moderate
• My score: 2 hints

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Expecting me to solve a puzzle about dance moves is like asking my labrador retriever to perform open-heart surgery. I’m so far out of my comfort zone I might as well be on another planet. That I still managed to find all of the answers points to this one being moderately difficult, rather than outright hard.

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The key is in the spangram, because once you knew the theme was DANCEMOVES – which the theme clue of ‘Everybody cut footloose!’ might have given away, but which a couple of answers probably will have done anyway – then that spangram will have stood out. MOONWALK is also a relatively obvious one that takes up a lot of space, and though I needed a couple of hints, I was able to get most by trial and error. I have no idea what the FLOSS is, though.

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

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Sunday 11 August, game #161)

• DECK
• PATIO
• VERANDA
• BALCONY
• SUNROOM
• TERRACE
• SPANGRAM: BONUSSPACES

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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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