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 #903 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 #903, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #903.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #903 is... "An epic journey".
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "The original Homer."
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- OLDEN
- HIPS
- STIRS
- SKIPS
- LODGE
- WORST
- SINGE
- RESIN
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 'T' and ends in 'Y'.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's THEODYSSEY.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #903?
Drumroll, please...
- SHIP
- KING
- CYCLOPS
- SIRENS
- UNDERWORLD
- SUITORS
...and the spangram was THEODYSSEY.
Strands #903
“An epic journey”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵
Hi Strands fans. A bit of a tricky one for me, as I've never read The Odyssey, and haven't seen the recent film adaptation (I have issues with any movie longer than two hours). Nonetheless, I was able to muddle through without clues.
It helped that I found the spangram of THEODYSSEY right away, splitting the board in two from the bottom-right corner to near the top of the left-hand side.
From there, I picked up SHIP in the top-right corner, with KING below it. CYCLOPS was to its left, with SIRENS in the top-left corner to complete the section.
There were two answers to find in the bottom half. UNDERWORLD occupied the bottom two lines, which was handy, as there's no way I was going to get the final answer of SUITORS if it weren't the only option left on the board...
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #902.
- GREEN
- ROCKY
- SMOKY
- CASCADE
- WHITE
- SAWTOOTH
...and the spangram was MOUNTAINRANGE.
Strands #902
“Peak Americana”
🔵💡🔵💡
🔵🟡🔵🔵
🔵
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.
