If you’re perusing this, you’re in quest of help with Strands, the New York Times’ advanced word-search challenge.

Strands invites players to reinvent the classic word search. Words can be constructed from adjacent letters in any direction, including diagonally, and can shift direction, forming distinctive shapes and designs. Each letter in the grid contributes to a solution. There is always a theme linking all solutions, alongside the “spangram,” a unique word or phrase that embodies the day’s theme and stretches across the entire grid either horizontally or vertically.

By providing an ambiguous hint and refraining from offering a word list, Strands serves up a thought-provoking challenge that requires more time to complete than other games such as Wordle and Connections.

If you’re in a bind or lack 10 minutes to tackle today’s puzzle, we have all the NYT Strands hints you require to continue at your own speed.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Goose eggs

The words are related to numbers.

Today’s NYT Strands theme clearly articulated

These words represent ways of indicating nothing.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is Diddly Squat.

NYT Strands word list for June 21

– Zilch
– Naught
– Zero
– Nada
– Diddly Squat
– Bupkis
– Zippo
– Nothing

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