NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, July 11 (game #130)

I thoroughly enjoyed playing today’s Strands puzzle from the NYT, so I recommend you give it a try yourself. Though thinking about it, if you weren’t going to do that you wouldn’t be on this page anyway, so I’ll shut up. Either way, have fun!

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 #130) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #130) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• BACK
• BOTCH
• RODE
• ROTTED
• DRIVE
• PRIDE

NYT Strands today (game #130) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #130) – 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 #130) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #130, are…

• BUTTER
• CHILI
• BACON
• CHIVES
• CHEDDAR
• BROCCOLI
• SPANGRAM: BAKEDPOTATO

• My rating: Moderate
• My score: Perfect

A baked potato is objectively one of the best mini-meals in existence, so I enjoyed this Strands puzzle from the NYT. Not that I realized what the connection here was until relatively late on in the game; I’d already found BUTTER, CHILI, BACON and CHIVES before getting the spangram, and at that point all I knew was that clearly there was some kind of food thing going on here.

Once I got the spangram, BAKEDPOTATO, it all became a lot easier, with only my inability to spell BROCCOLI (it always trips me up) causing me any problems.

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

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Wednesday 10 July, game #129)

• PIRATES
• CROCODILE
• DARLING
• HOOK
• LAGOON
• MERMAID
• SPANGRAM: PETERPAN

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).