NEW Strands Today — Hints, Spangrams and Answers for Game #301 (Sunday, December 29, 2024)

On December 29, 2024By Littum

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme – “Festival of Lights delights” – is difficult if you have no knowledge of the festival itself.

Below we have collected some useful tips for Strands #301, as well as the answers should it come to that. We’ll start with some clues before building up to the full answer for Strands #301, so read on if you need some help.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Strands #301.

Today’s NYT Strand’s answer — Today’s theme and hints

The official theme of NYT Strands #301 is… “Festival of Lights delights”.

And here’s an unofficial tip from me: “Festive treats.”

If you’re still in the dark, here are some helpful words to give you those valuable clues:

PULSE
STOP
PANEL
CHALK
STOKE
BROKE
BOOKS

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connecting word. Today it starts with H and ends with S.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s HANNUKAHFOODS.

Dagens Strand’s answer

So what is today’s Strands response to game #301?

Drumroll, please…

CHALLAH
LATCHES
BRISKET
APPLESAUCE
BULLET

Thread #301

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the framework was HANNUKAHFOODS.

Thread #301

“Festival of Lights delights”

Hello Strand’s fans. Even though I knew the Festival of Lights refers to Hannukah, I had to really rack my brains to think of the foods associated with it, so I was quite happy to get through without using any clues.

After finding “hannukah” itself was not spanram, I set about looking for answers. CHALLAH was the first to appear and I found it in the lower right corner. This was followed by LATKES on the opposite side and BRISKET between the two.

This cleared enough space to reveal that the spanram probably ended “oods,” and since this was clearly about Hannukah, I connected the two to spell HANNUKAHFOODS.

That left two answers to be found on the top half of the grid. I saw ÆBLEAUCE in the top right first, and that just left the anagram of UGKE to remove to complete the puzzle. It was, of course, KUGEL.

Yesterday’s Strand’s answer

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the entire article about yesterday’s Strand’s answer for game #300 right here.