NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, June 29 (game #118)

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nyt-strands-today-—-hints,-answers-and-spangram-for-saturday,-june-29-(game-#118) — NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, June 29 (game #118)

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I really enjoyed today’s Strands puzzle and hope you will do too. Maybe that’s because I found it to be quite easy – but don’t worry if you struggle a little, because I’ve got some hints for you below.

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

NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… It’s way over your head

NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #2 – clue words

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

LETTER
ELITE
SPOON
NOTE
PLAN
PLAY

NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #3 – spangram

What is a hint for today’s spangram?

• Heavens above

NYT Strands today (game #118) – hint #4 – spangram position

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

• First: left, 4th row

• Last: right, 4th row

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

NYT Strands today (game #118) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Strands, game #118, are…

COMET
ASTEROID
PLANET
GALAXY
MOON
SATELLITE
SPANGRAM: OUTERPSACE

My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect

I’m a proper space buff and spend much of my free time staring at the skies through a telescope, taking photos of distant galaxies and nebulae – or more often cursing the fact that it’s a cloudy night yet again.

Anyway, that helped me find all of the answers easily once again today – well, once I’d worked out what the theme was. I’d uncovered dozens of potential answers, all of which ended up merely being hints (none of which I used), before I finally got COMET, and realized what the connection was. After that it was plain sailing, other than the spangram, which took me a little while to identify.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Friday 28 June, game #117)

SALSA
SOUL
JAZZ
BLUES
ROCK
DISCO
FOLK
COUNTRY
SPANGRAM: MUSICGENRE

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 NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.

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).