NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, June 27 (game #116)

This might be a tricky one, depending on certain factors that I won’t go into for fear of spoilers. If that’s the case, you might find my hints to be helpful.

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 #116) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #116) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• CARGO
• RICE
• COME
• ROSE
• STONE
• LANE

NYT Strands today (game #116) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #116) – 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 #116) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #116, are…

• CHEESE
• GRAVY
• BISCUIT
• MACARONI
• BURGER
• FRIES
• SPANGRAM: COMBOMEALS

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

Here’s another Strands puzzle that will probably be harder for those of you who aren’t in the US. Two of the pairings here – BURGER and FRIES, and MACARONI and CHEESE – are well known around the world. The other, GRAVY and BISCUITS, is not. In fact, the idea of GRAVY and BISCUITS going together in the UK would be disgusting, because gravy for us is a savoury meat (or vegetable) sauce, not a creamy one as the US equivalent is, while biscuits are what Americans would know as cookies. Mmmmm, put some more meat sauce on those Oreos, please…

Fortunately that didn’t have an impact on my game today, because I have worked for American websites for long enough that I know what gravy refers to in this context, plus the other answers were simple enough that I would have worked it out anyway. The spangram was probably the hardest aspect of this game – I could see MEALS fairly on, but couldn’t work out the COMBO part until fairly late into the game.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Wednesday 26 June, game #115)

• POSH
• SNAZZY
• DAPPER
• SPIFFY
• CHIC
• SWANK
• DRIPPY
• SPANGRAM: FASHIONISTA

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).