NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #233 (Tuesday, October 22 2024)

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Need a bit of help with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Cool color!" — will test your vocabulary in a very specific area.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #233, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #233, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #233.

Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #233 is... "Cool color!"

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Throwing shade(s)".

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

WIRE
SONG
VASE
SIEVE
RAZE
BOATER
LEAVES

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with 'T' and ends with 'S'.

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Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's THEBLUES.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #233?

Drumroll, please...

COBALT
AZURE
INDIGO
TURQUOISE
NAVY
PERIWINKLE

...and the spangram was THEBLUES.

Strands #233

“Cool color!”

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Hi Strands fans. I might have been left pondering this one for a while, if I didn't immediately spot COBALT in the top-left corner. With AZURE to its right, it became clear pretty quickly that today's puzzle was about shades of blue.

Despite that, it took me a while to see how to connect the word "blues" into a spangram, so I tried to carve it out with more answers on the board. INDIGO was in the bottom left, and TURQUOISE opposite it, meaning I had an answer in every corner.

When I got NAVY along the middle, I finally had enough letters down to figure out that the word in front of "blues" was simply "the". That's THEBLUES, which I guess I should have got.

Only one word was left, and thankfully it was in a straight line, because I don't think I'd have ever got it otherwise. The final answer: PERIWINKLE.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #232 right here.

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