NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, September 17 (game #198)

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.

NYT Strands today (game #198) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #198) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• LOIN
• LORE
• CHART
• RING
• BRING
• RACK

NYT Strands today (game #198) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #198) – hint #4 – spangram position

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NYT Strands today (game #198) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #198, are…

• SPRING
• TRAMPOLINE
• ECHO
• BASKETBALL
• KANGAROO
• SPANGRAM: LETSBOUNCE

• My rating: Moderate
• My score: 1 hint

I have only one problem with today’s Strands – and that’s the spangram. Unless LETSBOUNCE is an Americanism that I’m not familiar with, I don’t get why that’s the answer, rather than just BOUNCE on its own.

That really tripped me up today; the combination of theme clue and uncovering SPRING by accident led me to the general concept, and I was able to find TRAMPOLINE, ECHO and BASKETBALL without too much trouble. But I couldn’t make two more words out of the remaining letters. I could see BOUNCE was there, but it didn’t turn blue (or yellow), and I couldn’t work out what word could go before (or after) it. Eventually I used a hint, which gave me KANGAROO, at which point the spangram revealed itself.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday 16 September, game #197)

• CHEEK
• NOSE
• EARLOBE
• EYEBROW
• SEPTUM
• NAVEL
• TONGUE
• SPANGRAM: PIERCING

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