NYT Strands hints, answers for August 6

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

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: Bed, bath and beyond

The hint for the theme is that each of these things are represented in one place.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

The answers are related to describing cloth items from around the house stored in the same closet.

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 Linencloset.

NYT Strands word list for August 6

• Sheet

• Towel

• Blanket

• Pillowcase

• LinenCloset

• Tablecloth

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