NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, April 24 (game #782)

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.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

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NYT Strands today (game #782) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #782) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• ROPE
• CALL
• LOBE
• WORTH
• CLOUD
• WELL

NYT Strands today (game #782) – hint #3 – spangram letters

NYT Strands today (game #782) – 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 #782) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #782, are…

• SHOUT
• WHOOP
• CATERWAUL
• BELLOW
• HOLLER
• CLAMOR
• SPANGRAM: LETSGETLOUD

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 1 hint

“Hullabaloo” is one of those words that’s enjoyable to say but, in common with all of today’s words, straddles the border between giddy and annoying — fun if you’re the one doing the caterwauling, less fun if you’re trying to do a word search while someone is caterwauling.

WHOOP is, among them all, the most acceptable and something that people are allowed to do as a sign of appreciation at a concert or at the end of a play, but the rest are the kind of activities that will get an adult arrested, or at the very least stared at.

Beyond the pleasurable word search I was also pleased to see the return of the needlessly long spangram after a series of sensible ones — albeit one that demands an apostrophe.

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday, April 23, game #781)

• THUNDER
• UNDERWORLD
• MARRIAGE
• LOVE
• HARVEST
• WISDOM
• SPANGRAM: DOMAIN

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna’s addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.