NEW Strands Today — Hints, Spangrams and Answers for Game #291 (Thursday, December 19, 2024)

On December 19, 2024By Littum

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme – “Roll with it” – isn’t too difficult once you have an answer or two on the board.

Below we have collected some useful tips for Strands #291, 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 #291, so read on if you need some help.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Strands #291.

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

The official theme of NYT Strands #291 is… “Roll with it”.

And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “Record Store Genres.”

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

RESIN
GLASS
LINES
PEAK
CRESS
LARCH
REMARK

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connecting word. Today it starts with ‘R’ and ends with ‘G’.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s ROCK.

Dagens Strand’s answer

So what is today’s Strands response to game #291?

Drumroll, please…

PUNK
GRUNGE
METAL
PROGRESSIVE
GLAM
ALTERNATIVE

Thread #291

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the spanframe was ROCK.

Thread #291

“Roll With It”

Hello Strand’s fans. There’s nothing too difficult here, especially if you – like me – spend a lot of time digging around record stores looking for bargains.

I was kind of lucky that I got PUNK along the bottom row without really thinking about the theme. But with that confirmed, it was clear that “Roll with it” would be about musical genres – something confirmed when I got GRUNGE its due.

I then saw METAL in the upper right corner, followed by PROGRESSIVE on the opposite side. GLAM was twisted just below METAL and it exposed enough of the spanframe for me to complete it backwards from right to left: ROCKING.

That left only one more word to find, albeit a long one. The anagram was LEATTNRIEV, which of course can only be rewritten as ALTERNATIVE.

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 #290 right here.