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NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, April 13 (game #406)
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.
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, April 12 (game #405).
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 #406) - hint #1 - today's theme
What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?
• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Orange door hinge
NYT Strands today (game #406) - hint #2 - clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- LATHE
- DEAR
- POSER
- SHELF
- ROAD
- PREY
NYT Strands today (game #406) - hint #3 - spangram letters
How many letters are in today's spangram?
• Spangram has 11 letters
NYT Strands today (game #406) - hint #4 - spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?
First side: left, 4th row
Last side: right, 8th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #406) - the answers
The answers to today's Strands, game #406, are…
- HELLO
- FLEW
- PILOT
- QUEEN
- HEIGHT
- PLAQUE
- SPREAD
- SPANGRAM: COLOR RHYMES
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 hints
Today’s theme is a callback to a 2010 interview with Eminem, in which he tells 60 Minutes that it annoys him when people say “nothing rhymes with orange”. It’s just the way you pronounce it, he says, as he goes on to demonstrate the numerous things that rhyme with orange if you’re Eminem – including porridge, jorridge, four-inch and door hinge.
Without this crucial piece of information I was completely in the dark as I searched for what appeared to be utterly random words. Had I known I was searching for slim shadys, and all the other slim shadys were just imitating, I may have been quicker.
Even armed with the knowledge that all of these words are COLOR RHYMES (HELLO yellow, FLEW blue, QUEEN green, etc), I still had to use Google to find out what rhymes with PILOT. Hopefully it wasn’t just me who was stumped.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Saturday, 12 April, game #405)
- GRIMY
- FILTHY
- MUDDY
- POLLUTED
- STAINED
- UNKEMPT
- SPANGRAM: DIRTY WORDS
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 how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.
