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Need help with Strands #731? Here are some hints and the answers

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Need a bit of help with NYT Strands today? No shame in that, and you've come to the right place. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #731 as well as the answers, should it come to that.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #731.

Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #731 is... "Piece of cake".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Shopping list ready".

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

  • STING
  • CASE
  • SKIING
  • FROGS
  • DIAL
  • KING
  • SING
  • STRONG
  • FRONTS

Still struggling? The spangram touches two opposite sides of the board (but can start and end anywhere), and will give you a hint about the connection between the answers. Today, it starts with 'B' and ends with 'E'.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's BAKINGAISLE.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #731?

Drumroll, please...

  • VANILLA
  • FROSTING
  • CANDLES
  • SUGAR
  • FLOUR
  • COCOA

Strands #731

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...and the spangram was BAKINGAISLE.

Strands #731

“Piece of cake”

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Hi Strands fans. Appropriately for the subject matter, today's Strands puzzle was indeed a cakewalk.

The double 'L' on the left-hand side caught my eye immediately, and I quickly made it part of VANILLA.

After briefly thinking this might be about flavors of cakes, I then saw FROSTING in the top-right corner. That, in turn, cordoned off CANDLES in the top left, making me think this might be about birthday cakes.

But it wasn't - or not exclusively, anyway. I only realized it was about individual cake ingredients when I located SUGAR in the bottom-right corner. That set me on the search for FLOUR, which I found on the left-hand side.

This freed up space for the spangram of BAKINGAISLE, which started in the bottom-left corner and ended up back there via the opposite side of the board.

That just left COCOA underneath it to complete the puzzle.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #730.

Strands #730

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  • ORDERLY
  • CLEAN
  • TIDY
  • NEAT
  • SHIPSHAPE
  • IMMACULATE

...and the spangram was SPRUCEDUP.

Strands #730

“Everything's in place”

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Hi Strands fans. Today's puzzle is, appropriately enough, all about spring cleaning.

I spotted ORDERLY along the top to kick things off, with CLEAN in the bottom-right corner.

I then found TIDY spelt backwards underneath ORDERLY, which showed than an answer had to start with 'PUD' or end in 'DUP'. It was the latter, as I found when I connected the spangram of SPRUCEDUP.

That cordoned off NEAT in the top half, leaving just two answers to find in the bottom section. SHIPSHAPE was on the right-hand side, which just left IMMACULATE on the left to complete the puzzle.

Alan Martin
Alan Martin

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. He also handles all the Wordle coverage on Tom's Guide and has been playing the addictive NYT game for the last several years in an effort to keep his streak forever intact.

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