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Group words by physical shape, focusing on straight, narrow, stick-like objects.
It reinforces the theme with a clever phrase that ties in with daily clues.
Strands is a captivating blend of Spelling Bee, Connections, and classic Crossword.
Welcome back to our daily NYT Strands puzzle review. Today’s theme revolves around ‘getting better’. The Spangram starts close to the left side of the grid. Hints and clues have been listed below, or you can head straight to the answer key.
Spangrams never run straight. They run diagonally in a zigzag pattern across the grid. This makes Strands one of the only NYT puzzles where you're tracing a curve instead of reading a row.
If you're new to NYT Strands, here's a quick overview of how the game works. The game combines elements of the NYT Crossword, Connections, and Spelling Bee. Players get 48 letters on a 6×8 board, along with a daily theme as a hint. NYT Strands is an engaging daily word puzzle that challenges players' vocabulary and pattern-recognition skills.
Did you know that there are some words that you can use as hints to find the answers? We have compiled the best hints. Take a look:
Dare, Bite, Rite, Mite, Shir, Rarer, Drear, Read, Rear, Dear, Time
Today’s Spangram is SUMMERTIME. To find it, start with the S that is the bottom letter on the far-left vertical row, and wind up. The spangram ‘SUMMERTIME’ ties together today’s theme, referring to the season when plants, flowers, and crops experience their strongest growth. It connects naturally with all of the theme words found in the puzzle.
Here’s a simple tip that can help you solve NYT Strands more quickly. First, identify the theme. Today’s official theme is ‘The growing season.’ Another helpful tip is to look for long words stretching across the edges of the grid, as they often form the Spangram.
We have listed below all the non-Spangram answers for July 6:
Bloom
Expand
Spread
Thrive
Burgeon
Flourish
The theme for today is the phrase 'The growing season.' The growing season is the period of the year when local temperatures, daylight hours, and rainfall are favorable for plants and crops to grow. It is typically defined as the number of frost-free days between the last freezing temperatures of spring and the first frosts of autumn.
