NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, November 8 (game #980)
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.
The theme of today's NYT Strands puzzle is "Disciplined combat." To unlock in-game hints, players can play any of the following clue words: TRICK, WAKE, STORE, MUST, JUNTA, STUNT, or DART. The spangram in today's game consists of 11 letters. It touches the left side, fifth row, and the right side, eighth row. The answers to today's Strands game #980 are KICKBOXING, JUDO, KARATE, TAEKWONDO, NINJUTSU.
The spangram for this puzzle is MARTIALARTS. Players rated the difficulty of today's game as easy and scored a perfect match. The only challenge was recognizing Jujitsu as one of the martial arts in the spangram.
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