Subj : NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, July 11 (game #495)
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Date : Thu Jul 10 2025 15:15:08

NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, July 11 (game #495)

Date:
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to 
solve today's game, including the spangram.

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for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day 
for your time zone  which means that some people are always playing 'today's 
game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for 
Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for 
Thursday, July 10 (game #494) . 

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

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle 
today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today 
page for the original viral word game. 

 SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read 
on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #495) - 
hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? 

  Today's NYT Strands theme is It could be verse NYT Strands today (game 
#495) - hint #2 - clue words 

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. SMILE PILE RACE 
LACE CHIP SLIP NYT Strands today (game #495) - hint #3 - spangram letters How 
many letters are in today's spangram? 

  Spangram has 6 letters NYT Strands today (game #495) - hint #4 - spangram 
position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches? 

First side: left, 5th row 

Last side: right, 5th row 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #495) - the answers (Image credit: New 
York Times) 

The answers to today's Strands, game #495, are SONNET LIMERICK EPIC ELEGY 
HAIKU BALLAD ACROSTIC SPANGRAM: POETRY My rating: Hard My score: 2 hints 

So, even though I saw the word SONNET really quickly, I struggled with the 
rest of todays word search and needed a couple of hints to get me home. 

Anyway, I think I may have been distracted by the number of rhyming non-game 
words on the board (I couldnt resist) and the incredibly short spangram  its 
been quite a while since weve had a minimal six-letter snake. 

Despite being only eight letters left, ACROSTIC still took me a while to get 
as it was a new word to me  its a poem where the first letter of each line 
forms a word. Kind of like a puzzle within a poem. 

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT 
Strands answers (Thursday, July 10, game #494) DROWSY SPENT WEARY FATIGUED 
TIRED KNACKERED SPANGRAM: SLEEPYHEAD What is NYT Strands? 

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and 
Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that 
has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on 
desktop or mobile. 

I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for 
solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hi
nts-11-july-2025


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