NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, June 15 (game #104)

Your weekend dose of Strands puzzles begins here, with a reasonably easy game that’s nonetheless a fun 15-minute challenge, as the best ones are. If you do need help, scroll down for my 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 #104) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #104) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• CHAIR
• TRIM
• QUID
• BOLD
• COOL
• LIKE

NYT Strands today (game #104) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #104) – 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 #104) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #104, are…

• SQUID
• LOBSTER
• CLAM
• WHALE
• OCTOPUS
• CORAL
• SHARK
• SPANGRAM: MARINELIFE

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

Another nice Strands puzzle; I’m coming to the conclusion that they work far better when they don’t try too hard. Just give us some related words and let us find them. Admittedly, that can lead to the game being too easy, as it possibly is today. With puzzles like these the theme clue arguably needs to be more cryptic, so that you don’t immediately know what kind of thing you’re looking for, as I did today.

I spotted SQUID very quickly, because it’s usually easy to find words with a Q in them, simply because you know they’ll be followed by a U, and that will therefore narrow down the options for the way the word could develop. LOBSTER, CLAM, WHALE, OCTOPUS all followed, then the spangram, and I finished off with CORAL and SHARK for the full set.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Friday 14 June, game #103)

• CHAISE
• STOOL
• SOFA
• COUCH
• RECLINER
• ARMCHAIR
• DIVAN
• SPANGRAM: SEATING

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