NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, November 8 (game #250)

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 Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Your Strands expert

Your Strands expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today (game #250) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #250) – hint #2 – clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• CAPE
• NAPE
• LOAN
• LOIN
• TEST
• PEST

NYT Strands today (game #250) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #250) – hint #4 – spangram position

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #250) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #250, are…

• SHAKE
• WAVE
• CLAP
• PRAY
• PINCH
• FIST
• POINT
• PEACE
• SPANGRAM: HANDGESTURES

• My rating: Easy (but pointless)
• My score: Perfect

It seems a shame that the NYT didn’t mark the 250th Strands game with a better, more interesting puzzle than this, but here we are. Today’s game is essentially a case of ‘Say what you see’. All eight standard answers are shown in emoji form, with only the spangram to work out on your own. So you get the likes of POINT, PRAY, WAVE and CLAP, plus the spangram HANDGESTURES to describe them all. The only remotely difficult answer was PINCH, which was a rare ‘crossover’ answer, where the letters formed a knot. It was all a bit of a waste, really, with no brain power required.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday, 7 November, game #249)

• TWEET
• POST
• SHARE
• LIKE
• FOLLOW
• COMMENT
• REPORT
• SPANGRAM: SOCIALMEDIA