NYT Strands hints, answers for August 21, 2026
The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.
The New York Times' Strands game offered hints for its August 21, 2026 puzzle. Strands is an elevated word-search game where players search for linked words in various directions, including diagonals, and a spangram, a word that spans the entire grid. Every letter in the grid is part of an answer, and there's always a theme linking the solutions.
The hint conveyed that the day's theme was to celebrate, with words describing various types of parties. The spangram hint indicated it was a horizontal word. The spangram for today was "Life's a Party."
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