NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Wednesday, November 6 (game #248)

2 weeks ago

NYT Strands homescreen connected a mobile telephone screen, connected a ray bluish background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Strands is nan NYT's latest connection crippled aft nan likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's awesome fun. It tin beryllium difficult, though, truthful publication connected for my Strands hints.

Want much word-based fun? Then cheque retired my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

SPOILER WARNING: Information astir NYT Strands coming is below, truthful don't publication connected if you don't want to cognize nan answers.

Your Strands expert

NYT Strands coming (game #248) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is nan taxable of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands taxable is… Strumming correct on ...

NYT Strands coming (game #248) - hint #2 - hint words

Play immoderate of these words to unlock nan in-game hints system.

BLOAT
GLEN
THIS
GLINT
RISK
LION

NYT Strands coming (game #248) - hint #3 - spangram

What is simply a hint for today's spangram?

• Finger-pickin' good

NYT Strands coming (game #248) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are 2 sides of nan committee that today's spangram touches?

First: left, 5th row

Last: right, 3rd row

Right, nan answers are below, truthful DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands coming (game #248) - nan answers

NYT Strands answers for crippled 248 connected a bluish background

The answers to today's Strands, crippled #248, are…

GUITAR
VIOLIN
BANJO
MANDOLIN
UKULELE
SITAR
HARP
SPANGRAM: STRINGY

My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect

One of my galore regrets successful life is that I ne'er learned to play a philharmonic instrument. If I had, it would decidedly person been a guitar. I suppose it's not excessively precocious for maine to alteration that, but for now I'll person to contented myself pinch solving a Strands crippled astir stringed instruments – or, arsenic nan spangram would person it, STRINGY. I didn't overmuch for illustration that arsenic a spangram, but that speech this is simply a reasonable game, pinch respective easy answers (GUITAR, VIOLIN) and a fewer that are perchance little common, depending connected wherever successful nan world you are and what type of euphony you perceive to (SITAR, HARP, UKULELE). I solved it without needing immoderate hints, which is simply a acold outcry from yesterday's near-disastrous crippled – though Strands is typically truthful easy that I can't really ideate ever failing a crippled entirely.

Sign up to beryllium nan first to cognize astir unmissable Black Friday deals connected apical tech, positive get each your favourite TechRadar content.

How did you do today? Send maine an email and fto maine know.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, 5 November, crippled #247)

BAND
CHOIR
DRAMA
DEBATE
YEARBOOK
ORCHESTRA
SPANGRAM: AFTERSCHOOL

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is nan NYT's caller connection game, pursuing Wordle and Connections. It's now retired of beta truthful is simply a afloat fledged personnel of nan NYT's games unchangeable and tin beryllium played connected nan NYT Games site connected desktop aliases mobile.

I've sewage a afloat guideline to how to play NYT Strands, complete pinch tips for solving it, truthful cheque that retired if you're struggling to hit it each day.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor successful Chief, nan latest successful a agelong statement of elder editorial roles he’s held successful a profession that started nan week that Google launched (nice of them to people nan occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor successful Chief connected Tom’s Guide, wherever he oversaw each gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's besides a erstwhile editor of nan tech website Stuff and spent 5 years astatine nan euphony mag NME, wherever his duties chiefly progressive spoiling different people’s fun. He’s based successful London, and has tested and written astir phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart location devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and beautiful overmuch each different type of gadget you tin deliberation of. An avid photographer, Marc likes thing amended than taking pictures of very mini things (bugs, his daughters) aliases very large things (distant galaxies). He besides enjoys unrecorded music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors nan regular Wordle today page).

Source Technology