NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, November 30 (game #272)

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 Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

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 #272) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #272) – hint #2 – clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• BLOW
• BOWL
• POSE
• DOSE
• MOSS
• MOSSY

NYT Strands today (game #272) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #272) – hint #4 – spangram position

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #272) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #272, are…

• WIND
• LIFE
• COME
• EASY
• REAL
• BLOWS
• FANTASY
• SPANGRAM: BOHEMIANRHAPSODY

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 4 hints

Honestly, this one completely baffled me. I’ve been asking the NYT puzzle setters to make Strands harder for ages, so I’m not complaining when I get a difficult one – but I simply did not make the connection between these words at all until after I’d uncovered the spangram, which was at the very end of my game.

I’m blaming the theme clue here of Yas! Queen, mainly because it meant nothing at all to me. I am old and out of touch and didn’t even know this was a phrase, so I was completely thrown by it. Obviously the Queen aspect should have given it away, but no. To add to that, the answers here are all common words, and I didn’t put them together mentally to be the lyrics to BOHEMIANRHAPSODY. All my fault, no complaints.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Friday, 29 November, game #271)

• CHILL
• RELAX
• UNWIND
• PAUSE
• LOAF
• LOUNGE
• LUXURIATE
• SPANGRAM: DOWNTIME

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).