NYT Strands hints, answers for August 14, 2026
The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.
The New York Times' word-search game Strands presented its hints and answers for August 14, 2026 today. In Strands, players must form words from linked letters arranged in a grid, with words able to change direction. Each letter in the grid is part of an answer, and there is always a theme linking all solutions, along with a spangram, a word or phrase that sums up the day's theme.
Today's theme focused on discoveries discovered by accident, with words describing invented items. The spangram for today's puzzle was vertical. The complete word list for today's Strands puzzle included Penicillin, Slinky, Inventions, Plastic, Microwave, and Velcro.
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