NYT Strands hints, answers for August 20, 2026
The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.
The New York Times' Strands game offers hints for its August 20, 2026 puzzle, which is based on the theme of "spilt superlatives." In this game, players must find words in a grid made up of linked letters that can be formed in any direction, including changing direction. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer, and there is always a theme linking every solution, along with a spangram, a special word or phrase that sums up the day's theme. The spangram for today's puzzle is vertical.
The hint for today's Strands puzzle suggests that the words used will be related adjectives commonly found in a yearbook. The spangram, which spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically, is the answer "You're The."
Here is the complete list of words for today's Strands puzzle: Bees Knees, Cats Pajamas, Very Best, Gold Standard, Meet The, Mashable 101, and Looking for other daily online games? These words are all examples of superlatives that describe someone excellent.
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