It is time to deal with one other of the NYT’s Strands puzzles. The intention right here is to uncover a sequence of phrases hidden inside a grid of letters and united by a single theme.
It is simple to select up, typically troublesome to resolve and a terrific addition to your every day routine in the event you already play the likes of Wordle and Connections. So learn on for a couple of useful hints and my commentary on as we speak’s Strands puzzle.
SPOILER WARNING: Details about NYT Strands as we speak is beneath, so do not learn on in the event you do not wish to know the solutions.

NYT Strands as we speak (sport #54) – trace #1 – as we speak’s theme
What’s the theme of as we speak’s NYT Strands?
• Immediately’s NYT Strands theme is… Employees members
NYT Strands as we speak (sport #54) – trace #2 – clue phrases
What are some good clue phrases as we speak?
Play any of those phrases to unlock the in-game hints system.
• SPEAR
• SIGN
• FLOAT
• FITTER
• CLEAN
• SHUT
NYT Strands as we speak (sport #54) – trace #3 – spangram
What’s a touch for as we speak’s spangram?
• Sheet music
NYT Strands as we speak (sport #54) – trace #4 – spangram place
The place does as we speak’s spangram begin and finish?
• Begin: backside, third column
• Finish: high, fifth column
Proper, the solutions are beneath, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands as we speak (sport #54) – the solutions
The solutions to as we speak’s Strands, sport #54, are…
- SHARP
- NATURAL
- CLEF
- FLAT
- SIGNATURE
- REST
- MEASURE
- SPANGRAM: NOTATION
- My score: Very onerous
- My rating: Excellent
You may take a look at my verdict above and suppose there’s an inconsistency; why am I describing it as ‘very onerous’ after I acquired an ideal rating? Nicely, you would not surprise why in the event you’d seen me struggling to resolve this one over a interval of about an hour!
In my defence, the sport was biased towards me from the beginning. I’ve by no means discovered a musical instrument, aside from a couple of weeks taking part in recorder in school aged about six, till it was politely recommended to me that I’d wish to strive one thing completely different equivalent to standing in a nook watching everybody else. I’m not musical.
So as to add to that, as we speak’s theme trace, ‘Employees members’, meant nothing to me. Within the UK, we use the time period ‘stave’ somewhat than ’employees’, so Employees members merely had me fascinated with possibly phrases for employees of some type.
I used to be fully and totally stumped even as soon as I would discovered SHARP purely by probability. The truth is, it was solely after I stumbled upon CLEF and FLAT as nicely that I noticed what was wanted right here. The issue was that my data was not robust sufficient to know what the opposite solutions could be – so I ended up fixing all of it by brute drive. Each single phrase. Not enjoyable.
How did you do as we speak? Ship me an e-mail and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands solutions (Thursday 25 April, sport #53)
- CROWN
- HELMET
- BEANIE
- BERET
- FEDORA
- BONNET
- TURBAN
- SPANGRAM: HEADWEAR
What’s NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new phrase sport, following Wordle and Connections. It is presently in Beta and may be performed on the NYT Video games web site on desktop or cellular.
I’ve acquired a full information to find out how to play NYT Strands, full with ideas for fixing it, so verify that out in the event you’re struggling to beat it every day.