NYT Threads Hints and Answers for August 31, 2025


If you are perusing this, you are in search of guidance regarding Strands, the advanced word-search game from the New York Times.

Strands invites players to form words from interconnected letters in any direction, including diagonally, allowing words to shift direction and assume unique forms. Each letter in the grid contributes to a solution, all connected by a theme and the “spangram,” a distinctive word or phrase that encapsulates the day’s theme, traversing the grid either horizontally or vertically.

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By presenting an ambiguous hint and excluding the word list, Strands delivers a mentally stimulating challenge that typically requires more time to resolve than other games such as Wordle and Connections.

If you find yourself at an impasse or pressed for time, we have all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle to assist you in advancing at your own speed.

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NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Up the hill

The words are related to songs.

Today’s NYT Strands theme simply articulated

These words are included in a timeless nursery rhyme.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is Jack and Jill.

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NYT Strands word list for August 30

– Tumbling
– Water
– Fetch
– Jack and Jill
– Broke
– Pail
– After
– Crown

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