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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 30 (game #545) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game. 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 #546) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? • Today's NYT Strands theme is… Up the hill NYT Strands today (game #546) - hint #2 - clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. BOIL WATCH LAKE KNIFE BEAT PRANK NYT Strands today (game #546) - hint #3 - spangram letters How many letters are in today's spangram? • Spangram has 11 letters NYT Strands today (game #546) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches? First side: right, 7th row Last side: left, 2nd row Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #546) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Strands, game #546, are… PAIL TUMBLING FETCH WATER AFTER CROWN BROKE SPANGRAM: JACK AND JILL My rating: Moderate My score: 1 hint Initially, I had no idea what the theme was about, but I was finding plenty of non-game words so I took a hint to get started. PAIL is not a word that has featured regularly in my lifetime so I immediately recognized it from the nursery rhyme – something that was confirmed when I found the spangram JACK AND JILL. From here it was just a case of remembering what they went up the hill for and what happened when they fell down it. Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Saturday, August 30, game #545) HUGE ENORMOUS MIGHTY GIGANTIC MASSIVE COLOSSAL SPANGRAM: BIG DEAL What is NYT Strands? Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.
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