{"id":552427,"date":"2026-07-31T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:36:08","slug":"nyt-strands-hints-for-july-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552427\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Strands Hints for July 31, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, fellow word lovers. Welcome to Strands Sidekick. Our goal here is to help you solve each day\u2019s puzzle. Scroll down to see hints for today\u2019s game, or visit the comments section to swap stories, share creative writing or connect with other solvers. Let\u2019s get untangling.<\/p>\n

Be warned: This article includes hints and comments that may contain spoilers for today\u2019s puzzle. Solve Strands first<\/a>, or scroll at your own risk.<\/p>\n

Strands is released at midnight in your time zone. To accommodate players around the world, we publish two Strands Sidekicks each day, based on Eastern Standard Time.<\/p>\n

If you find yourself on the wrong Sidekick, check your puzzle\u2019s number, and go to this page<\/a> to find its corresponding Sidekick post.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Difficulty<\/p>\n

To determine the difficulty of each puzzle, we average the ratings provided by paid testers. They can choose from three levels of difficulty: easy, moderate and challenging. Learn more about what they do here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s difficulty is moderate.<\/p>\n

Is your score telling a different story? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

Need a hint?<\/p>\n

Let us point you in the right direction. Click or tap each hint below to reveal the first letter or direction of travel of up to three theme words in today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello, fellow word lovers. Welcome to Strands Sidekick. Our goal here is to help you solve each day\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69,114406],"class_list":["post-552427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-strands-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}