NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, July 27 (game #146)

Today’s Strands caused me huge problems, but I don’t know whether I’d describe it as difficult. For some people it’s probably easy, for others nearly impossible. Try it and see – and read on if you find you need some 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.

NYT Strands today (game #146) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #146) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• MUTE
• SHUT
• SHUN
• SHUNT
• DOCK
• SHOT

NYT Strands today (game #146) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #146) – hint #4 – spangram position

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

NYT Strands today (game #146) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #146, are…

• CLOCKS
• NOBODY
• SOCKS
• MITTENS
• MUSH
• KITTENS
• SPANGRAM: GOODNIGHTMOON

• My rating: Baffled
• My score: 2 hints

I had exactly 0% idea of what was going on here until after I’d completed the game, at which point I googled GOODNIGHTMOON, the spangram, and learned in was a children’s book from 1947. Right. Well, it’s not one I’d ever heard of, and it seems an utterly bizarre choice to build a Strands puzzle around, unless it’s way better known in the US, where the NYT is based, than it is in the UK. Or maybe it’s just me? But I have kids, I read them hundreds of books when they were young, and I never came across this one.

Anyway, all of that made it something of a struggle to solve. I got most of the way through it purely by guessing random words, but couldn’t work out the spangram. I could see that GOODNIGHT fit, and given the theme clue figured that might be part of it, but nothing I tried worked. Eventually I had to use hints to get the final two words (MUSH and KITTENS), at which point I found the spangram by default.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Friday 26 July, game #145)

• TRACK
• SWIMMING
• KARATE
• GOLF
• EQUESTRIAN
• ARCHERY
• SPANGRAM: OLYMPICS

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).