{
  "id": 13851393,
  "title": "NYT Strands hints, answers for October 12, 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/nyt-strands-hints-answers-for-october-12-2026",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-12T02:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/entertainment/strands-nyt-hint-october-12-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Today's NYT Strands hints are straightforward for those who enjoy talking. Strands, the New York Times' advanced word-search game, involves creating words from interconnected letters in any direction, including diagonals, resulting in unique shapes and patterns. Every letter in the grid is part of a solution, and there's always a theme connecting all answers, along with a spangram – a word or phrase that summarizes the day's theme and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.\n\nProviding only a cryptic hint and no word list, Strands presents a more challenging game than its counterparts like Wordle and Connections. For those who find themselves stuck or lack 10 or more minutes to solve today's puzzle, here are the NYT Strands hints for today's play at whatever pace suits you best.\n\nThe theme for today's NYT Strands is \"In a manner of speaking,\" with words related to language describing how people communicate.\n\nAs for the spangram, today's NYT Strands spangram is aligned horizontally.",
  "summary": "The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Mashable",
        "title": "Wordle today: Answer, hints for October 12, 2026",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/wordle-today-answer-hints-for-october-12-2026",
        "published": "2026-10-12T02:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}