{"id":77993,"date":"2025-08-18T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77993\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:04:09","slug":"todays-spangram-and-answers-dash-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77993\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Spangram And Answers (Dash It!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Today's<\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers.<\/p>\n

getty<\/p>\n

Before today\u2019s Strands hints, spangram and answers, here are Monday\u2019s:<\/a><\/p>\n

ForbesNYT Strands Hints For Monday, August 18: Today\u2019s Spangram And Answers (If The Show Fits)By Kris Holt<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey, folks! Today\u2019s NYT Strands hints, spangram and answers for Tuesday, August 19 are coming right up.<\/p>\n

How To Play Strands<\/p>\n

The New York Times\u2019 Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It\u2019s available on the NYT website<\/a> and in the NYT Games app alongside the likes of Wordle and Connections (which we also cover in daily guides at Forbes Gaming<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you\u2019ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram 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 spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.<\/p>\n

Every letter is used once in one of the theme words and spangram. You can connect letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally, and it\u2019s possible to switch directions in the middle of a word. If you\u2019re playing on a touchscreen, double tap the last letter to submit your guess.<\/p>\n

If you find three valid words of at least four letters that are not part of the theme, you\u2019ll unlock the Hint button. Clicking this will highlight the letters that make up one of the theme words.<\/p>\n

Be warned: You\u2019ll need to be on your toes. Sometimes you\u2019ll need to fill the missing word(s) 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.<\/p>\n

What Is Today\u2019s Strands Hint?<\/p>\n

Scroll slowly! Just after the hint for today\u2019s Strands puzzle, I\u2019ll reveal what the first two letters for the spangram and the other words are.<\/p>\n

The official theme hint for today\u2019s Strands puzzle is…<\/p>\n

Dash it!<\/p>\n

Need some extra help? Here\u2019s another hint…<\/p>\n

Bring ’em together<\/p>\n

There are five theme words to find today, including the spangram.<\/p>\n

What Are Today\u2019s NYT Strands Opening Letters?<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert! Don\u2019t scroll any further down the page until you\u2019re ready to find out today\u2019s Strands opening letters.<\/p>\n

Here are the first two letters of every theme word in today\u2019s puzzle. They\u2019re ordered from left to right, then top to bottom by any letter of the word appearing for the first time:<\/p>\n

What Is Today\u2019s NYT Strands Spangram?<\/p>\n

Before I reveal the other the full word list, I\u2019ll first tell you the spangram and show you where that is on the grid.<\/p>\n

This is your final spoiler warning!<\/p>\n

Scroll slowly, because I\u2019ll tell you what all the theme words are immediately after showing you where the spangram is.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Strands spangram is…<\/p>\n

HYPHENATED<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where you\u2019ll find it on the grid\u2026<\/p>\n

New York Times Strands screenshot, showing the highlighted term HYPHENATED<\/p>\n

Screenshot by Kris Holt
\nWhat Are Today\u2019s NYT Strands Answers?<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Strands theme words are…<\/p>\n

WILLY-NILLY
\n HOCUS-POCUS
\n HYPHENATED
\n HOITY-TOITY
\n PELL-MELL<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the completed grid looks like…<\/p>\n

Completed NYT Strands grid for August 19, including the words WILLY-NILLY, HOCUS-POCUS, HYPHENATED, HOITY-TOITY and PELL-MELL.<\/p>\n

Screenshot by Kris Holt<\/p>\n

Well, this was a tough one! I thought at first that the theme might have something to do with exclamations, but I couldn’t find any words that would align with that. I had absolutely no idea how to get started, so I used hints to give me PELL-MELL (an adverb that means “in confused haste”) and HOCUS-POCUS, which really should be two words as a mid-’90s Disney movie taught us all.<\/p>\n

At that point, I was able to see the spangram snaking across the center of the grid. That blocked off the letters for WILLY-NILLY and HOITY-TOITY for the win.<\/p>\n

I used two hints and the spangram was the third theme word I found.<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow for more Strands fun!<\/p>\n

Follow my blog<\/a> for more coverage of Strands, Connections and other word games as well as video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! If you want to chat about Strands, Connections and other stuff with like-minded folks, join my Discord server<\/a>! Also, follow me on Bluesky<\/a>! It\u2019s fun there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers. getty Before today\u2019s Strands hints, spangram and answers, here are Monday\u2019s: ForbesNYT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,59676,59679,59684,59678,59685,59680,59681,59682,59677,59683],"class_list":["post-77993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-nyt-strands","tag-nyt-strands-answers","tag-nyt-strands-august-19","tag-nyt-strands-clues","tag-nyt-strands-dash-it","tag-nyt-strands-hints","tag-nyt-strands-solution","tag-nyt-strands-spangram","tag-nyt-strands-today","tag-nyt-strands-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}