NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #139 (Saturday, July 20 2024)
Need help with Strands #139? Here are some hints and the answers
Need a bit of help with NYT Strands today? Today's puzzle theme — "A seat at the table" — is rather cryptic, but pretty straightforward once you understand what it's getting at.
Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #139, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #139, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #139.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #139 is... "A seat at the table".
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Get ready for dinner".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- PLANT
- PLANK
- SINGS
- LOONS
- LOST
- LAST
- TOOLS
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with 'P' and ends with 'G'.
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Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's PLACESETTING.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #139?
Drumroll, please...
- FORK
- SPOON
- NAPKIN
- KNIFE
- PLATE
- SAUCER
- GLASS
...and the spangram was PLACESETTING.
Strands #139
“A seat at the table”
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Hi Strands fans. Boy, did I make hard work of this. I was convinced that the theme of "A seat at the table" meant that today's puzzle would be about types of chair - something I am not an expert on.
After coming up empty for a while, I used a clue which revealed FORK, and I was left kicking myself. Of course: this was about dinner table pieces!
With FORK uncovered, it didn't take me long to bag the rest. I found SPOON to its left, and NAPKIN underneath. KNIFE was in the bottom left-hand corner, and PLATE was in the top left.
I had now cleared a nice path to easily decode the spangram: PLACESETTING.
Only two words were left to find, and both were isolated from other letters. I found SAUCER in the top-right first, and that just left GLASS to decode on the left.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #138 right here.
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