NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, June 3 (game #92)

Prepare yourself, because today’s Strands puzzle from the NYT is a difficult one. Or rather, I found it to be difficult; maybe you won’t. If you do, there are hints below to help you out. 

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 #92) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #92) – hint #2 – clue words

NYT Strands today (game #92) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #92) – 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 #92) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #92, are…

• YOGURT
• MISO
• KEFIR
• KOMBUCHA
• KIMCHI
• SAUERKRAUT
• SPANGRAM: FERMENTED

• My rating: Hard
• My score: Three hints

I generally manage to solve each Strands puzzle without needing hints, but failed miserably in that task today: I needed three of them. Will everyone find it as tough as I did? I suspect many will, because a) many of the words are relatively obscure and b) many have uncommon spellings.

I say many are relatively obscure, although obviously it depends on your diet. I love YOGURT, but none of the other answers here are part of my regular cuisine. If you’re a regular eater of KIMCHI or SAUERKRAUT then those words may have jumped out more readily to you. But even outside of that, only MISO really has a common structure in English; K is not a common letter to begin a word, but starts three answers and is in the middle of another. Maybe I could/should have solved it with two or even one hint, but there’s only so long I’m prepared to stare at the Strands board, and I ultimately decided enough was enough today. Frustrating – but I’m glad it was a little harder than some of them have been recently.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Sunday 2 June, game #91)

• TOPPER
• COLOR
• CLEANSE
• BASE
• FILE
• BUFF
• MOISTURIZE
• SPANGRAM: MANICURE

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).