NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, June 16 (game #105)

Sunday’s Strands puzzle is a relatively straightforward one, but you may still need some hints for it if you’re not familiar with the subject in question. You’ll find some below if that’s the case. (Or if it’s not the case; they’re below either way!)

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 #105) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #105) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• MINE
• CHEAT
• DOPE
• PUNCH
• MATCH
• LONE

NYT Strands today (game #105) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #105) – 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 #105) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #105, are…

• CHAI
• MATCHA
• JASMINE
• CHAMOMILE
• OOLONG
• GUNPOWDER
• SPANGRAM: TEATIME

• My rating: Moderate
• My score: 1 hint

Fun fact: I have never drunk a single cup of tea. Not JASMINE or MATCHA or OOLONG or any of the other varieties that form the answers to today’s NYT Strands puzzle. That made the task a fair bit harder for me than it may well have been for you, to the extent that I needed one hint to get started. 

Once I had that, it wasn’t too bad; I’d heard of all of them other than GUNPOWDER, which I solved right at the end. I was tripped up by CHAMOMILE, though, because it’s spelled without the H in the UK – another example of the NYT’s lack of awareness (or lack of interest) in global language. It’s not like there aren’t plenty of other teas they could have included instead of that one.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Saturday 15 June, game #104)

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

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).

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