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 #902 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 #902, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #902.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #902 is... "Peak Americana".
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Ain't no ____ high enough."
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- CHIT
- STEW
- TRAIT
- COIN
- STOOGE
- REGAIN
- DEMO
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 'M' and ends in 'E'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's MOUNTAINRANGE.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #902?
Drumroll, please...
- GREEN
- ROCKY
- SMOKY
- CASCADE
- WHITE
- SAWTOOTH
...and the spangram was MOUNTAINRANGE.
Strands #902
“Peak Americana”
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Hi Strands fans. A painful puzzle today for those of us outside the United States. We Europeans simply don't have a list of the American mountain ranges in our heads, which made coming up with today's answers extremely frustrating.
I actually found the word GREEN in the top-left corner without assistance while looking for clue words, but after that I was stumped. Two consecutive clues revealed ROCKY to its right and SMOKY underneath.
I had already seen the word "mountain", and those two cleared a gap for me to see how it proceeded: it was the spangram of MOUNTAINRANGE.
Three answers were left to find, all of them based on extreme trial and error thanks to my ignorance of U.S. geography. CASCADE was written along the bottom of the board, with WHITE above it. That just left SAWTOOTH in the top-right corner to complete the puzzle.
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #901.
- BASH
- SHINDIG
- RAGER
- SOIREE
- BANGER
- FESTIVITY
...and the spangram was LIFESAPARTY.
Strands #901
“Celebrate!”
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Hi Strands fans. I really struggled with today's puzzle, but was able to get through using just one clue in the end.
That came right at the start, and it gave me a four-letter answer: BASH. Okay, so it's synonyms for "party" then (I'd already tried connecting the word itself, but it was part of a longer spangram that I couldn't quite see yet.)
With that in mind, I connected SHINDIG at the bottom of the board with RAGER to its right. I then spotted SOIREE on the left-hand side, which isolated BANGER in the corner below it.
I then returned to the spangram at the top of the board, eventually deducing it to be LIFESAPARTY.
That just left the anagram of STETYIFIV to decode to complete the puzzle. It was, or course, FESTIVITY.
