{
  "id": 4083958,
  "title": "NYT Strands hints, answers for August 29, 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/nyt-strands-hints-answers-for-august-29-2026",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-29T02:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/entertainment/strands-nyt-hint-august-29-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Today's NYT Strands hint is easy for those who love cooking. In Strands, the New York Times' advanced word-search game, players must form words from linked letters in any direction, including diagonals. These words can form intricate shapes and patterns, with every letter in the grid contributing to an answer. Each puzzle has a theme connecting all solutions, along with a spangram, a word or phrase that captures the day's topic and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.\n\nProviding a vague hint but no word list, Strands challenges players with a more time-consuming experience than its other games, such as Wordle and Connections. If you're stuck or need assistance without spending too much time, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle to help you move forward at your preferred pace.\n\nToday's Strands theme is \"Now we're cooking!\" with the words being adjectives related to food. The spangram hint for today is whether it is vertical or horizontal, and it turns out to be vertical.\n\nToday's NYT Strands spangram is \"Sounds Tasty.\"",
  "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": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Mashable",
        "title": "NYT Pips hints, answers for August 29, 2026",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/nyt-pips-hints-answers-for-august-29-2026",
        "published": "2026-08-29T02:00:00.000Z"
      }
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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."
}