NYT Strands hints, answers for August 4

If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times’ elevated word-search game.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: In gloveThe hint for the theme is that the words are a handful.

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Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explainedThe answers are related to parts of the hand.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer todayToday’s spangram is OnHand.

NYT Strands word list for August 4Cuticle

Nail

Middle

Pointer

Palm

Ring

Thumb

OnHand

Pinky

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