NEW Strands Today — Tips, Answers and Spangram for Monday, November 18 (Game #260)

On November 18, 2024By Littum

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game, following the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult though, so read on for my Strands tips.

Want more word-based fun? So check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for tips and answers to these games.

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

Your Strands expert

Marc McLaren

NEW Strands today (game #260) – tip #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

• Today’s NEW Strands theme is… Coming up in the air

NEW Strands Today (Game #260) – Hint #2 – Clue Words

Play one of these words to unlock the in-game hint system.

NEW Strands today (game #260) – tip #3 – spangram

What’s a tip for today’s spangram?

• Aquatic animals

NEW Strands today (game #260) – tip #4 – spangram position

What two sides of the board do today’s spangram touch?

First: bottom, 6th column

Last: top, 1st column

Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NEW Strands today (game #260) – the answers

NEW Strands answer for game 260 on a blue background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Strands, game #260, are…

ORCA
DOLPHIN
SEAL
MANATEE
WALRUS
NARWHALE
SPANGRAM: SOW

My assessment: Moderate
My score: 1 tip

These sea creatures are among my favorite animals. There’s something about DOLPHINS, WHALES and SEALS that are just so appealing, and as for the slightly creepy but fascinating NARWHAL and MANATEE… they’re just amazing, aren’t they? I was surprised that the WHALE was not among them, but otherwise all the big stars of the marine mammal world were here.

However, this Strands was a difficult one to complete because several of the words are unusually spelled. In fact, I used a hint for the first word, and since it gave me C, O, R, and A, it took me several minutes to put it together for ORCA! I got there eventually, as I suspect most people will, because there are only so many possible answers here; It was difficult to get started, but at least not a huge amount of specialist knowledge is required.

How did you do today? Email me and let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Strand’s Answer (Sunday, November 17, Game #259)

TOWER
CASTLE
BRIDGE
FORT
PALACE
MONUMENT
ARCH
SPANGRAM: LANDMARKS

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is NYT’s new word game after Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta, so it’s a full member of NYT’s game stable and playable NYT Games website on desktop or mobile.

I have a full guide on how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips to solve it, so check it out if you struggle to beat it every day.