Subj : NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 13 (game #5 To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Fri Sep 12 2025 15:15:09 NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 13 (game #559) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Description: Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, September 12 (game #558) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #559) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? Today's NYT Strands theme is Better than good NYT Strands today (game #559) - hint #2 - clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. REGAL STUNK SPLAT GRIM PASTE MIND NYT Strands today (game #559) - hint #3 - spangram letters How many letters are in today's spangram? Spangram has 11 letters NYT Strands today (game #559) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches? First side: top, 1st column Last side: bottom, 4th column Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #559) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Strands, game #559, are EXPECTATIONS APES PLAINS LAKES AUNTS MINDS SPANGRAM: THEYRE GREAT My rating: Easy My score: Perfect I know its impossible in the Strands format, but the missing apostrophe in THEYRE GREAT is all kinds of wrong and not at all great. After finding EXPECTATIONS early thanks to the X and APES (thanks to it being in a corner), I was clear that we were looking for Great things. However, there were a few surprises among the selections; AUNTS made the cut, and PLAINS too but where was Britain? Im sure owners of Great Danes are similarly peeved! Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, September 12, game #558) VINTAGE AGELESS ANTIQUE HISTORIC ENDURING SPANGRAM: TIME HONORED What is NYT Strands? Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hi nts-13-september-2025 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .