today's nyt strands hints Spang and answers for Sunday August 25th looking for some help with Sunday's nyt strands an extra hint and the answers are right here today's nyt strands hints and answers New York Times looking for Saturday's strands hints Spang and answers you can find them here Forbes today's nyt strands hints Spang and answers for Saturday August 24 by Chris Holt hey folks I hope you're having a fantastic weekend especially considering that summer is drawing to a close fingers crossed you're making the most of it today's nyt strands hints Spang and answers are coming right up how to play strands the New York Times strand puzzle is a play on the classic word search it's now available in the nyt games app alongside the likes of Wordle and connections which we also cover in Daily guides on Forbes games there's a new game of strands to play every day the game will present you with a 6x8 grid of letters the aim is to find a group of words that have something in common and you'll get a clue as to what that theme is when you find a theme word it will remain highlighted in blue you'll also need to find a special word called a Spang gam this tells you what the words have in common the Spang gam Links at least two sides of the board but it may not start or end there while the theme words will not be a proper name the Spang gram can be a proper name when you find the Spang gam it will remain highlighted in yellow every letter is used once in one of the theme words and Spang gam you can connect letters vertically horizontally and diagonally and it's possible to switch directions in the middle of a word if you're playing on a touch screen double tap the last letter to submit your guess if you find three valid words of at least four letters that are not part of the theme you'll unlock the hint button clicking this will highlight the letters that make up one of the theme words be warned you'll need to be on your toes sometimes you'll need to fill the missing word as in a phrase on other days the game May revolve around synonyms or homophones the difficulty will vary from day to day and the puzzle creators will try to surprise you sometimes what is today's strands hint scroll slowly just after the hint for today's strands puzzle I'll reveal what the answer words are the official theme hint for today's strand puzzle is Into the Woods need some extra help here's another hint giant Flora there are eight theme words to find today including the Spang grum what are today's nyt strands hints spoiler alert don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's strand hints here are the first two letters of every word including the Spang gam in today's puzzle CB ma Wei what are today's nyt strands answers