NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, May 3 (game #61)

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    NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, May 3 (game #61)

    It’s time for another daily dose of the NYT’s Strands, the new(ish) word game that tasks you with finding the themed answers within a grid of letters. Yes, it can be tricky at times – but we all love a challenge, right? And if not, you can scroll down for some hints and the answers.

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

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #1 - today’s theme[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?[/HEADING]

    • Today’s NYT Strands theme is… A shade envious?

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #2 - clue words[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]What are some good clue words today?[/HEADING]

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

    • POSIT

    • LOVE

    • TICKLE

    • JUICE

    • STAND

    • RUNG

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #3 - spangram[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]What is a hint for today’s spangram?[/HEADING]

    • Eat them up to stay healthy

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #61) - hint #4 - spangram position[/HEADING]
    [HEADING=2]Where does today’s spangram start and end?[/HEADING]

    • Start: left, 6th row

    • End: right, 5nd row

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

    [HEADING=1]NYT Strands today (game #61) - the answers[/HEADING]

    [IMG alt=“NYT Strands answers for game #61 on a blue background”]https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hi...EEKeAxrzCN.jpg

    (Image credit: New York Times)

    The answers to today’s Strands, game #61, are…

    [ul]
    [li]JUNGLE[/li][li]PISTACHIO[/li][li]FOREST[/li][li]OLIVE[/li][li]ARTICHOKE[/li][li]EMERALD[/li][li]SPANGRAM: GREENS[/li][/ul]


    [ul]
    [li]My rating: Easy[/li][li]My score: Perfect[/li][/ul]



    This was a nice straightforward Strands game to end the working week (for me at least). The theme clue gave the game away really – the combination of ‘shade’ and ‘envious’ immediately suggested ‘green’ to me, so I looked for that and found the spangram right away. With the board now divided in two, the permutations for each letter were reduced, and it was a simple job to find PISTACHIO and JUNGLE at the bottom, FOREST and EMERALD at the top.

    OLIVE took me a while for some reason, and I don’t know if ARTICHOKE would even have occurred to me if the board hadn’t been so filled in by the time I got to it, but overall this was easy pickings.

    How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.



    [HEADING=2]Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday 2 May, game #60)[/HEADING]
    [ul]
    [li]CLOWNFISH[/li][li]SKUNK[/li][li]CHIPMUNK[/li][li]TIGER[/li][li]BUMBLEBEE[/li][li]ZEBRA[/li][li]SPANGRAM: STRIPED[/li][/ul]


    [HEADING=2]What is NYT Strands?[/HEADING]

    Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

    I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.

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