{
  "id": 14066066,
  "title": "NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, October 13 (game #954)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/nyt-strands-hints-and-answers-for-tuesday-october-13-game-954",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-12T23:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-13-october-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Today marks the release of the latest NYT Strands puzzle, puzzle number #954. Strands is the New York Times' newest word game, following hits like Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections. Players can access a new puzzle daily at midnight in their respective time zones, meaning some folks are playing today's game while others tackle yesterday's. This particular puzzle has a theme, clues, a spangram, and answers.\n\nThe theme of Strands today is... well, this is a bit tricky. Today's puzzle includes words such as SOME BREWS, PART, PATH, FROM, and FROGS. Each of these words can unlock the game's hint system.\n\nThe spangram in today's Strands puzzle is 12 letters long. Specifically, it spans from the left side of the board in the first row to the right side in the seventh row.\n\nThe spangram touches two sides of the puzzle board - the left side in the first row and the right side in the seventh row.\n\nThe answers to today's Strands puzzle are EMBARRASS, APPALL, NONPLUS, CHAGRIN, MORTIFY, and SPANGRAM: CRINGEWORTHY. The game's rating is listed as Hard, with a perfect score awarded to the solver.",
  "summary": "Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, October 13 (game #1723)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/quordle-hints-and-answers-for-tuesday-october-13-game-1723",
        "published": "2026-10-12T23:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}