NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, March 10 (game #737)

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 #737) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #737) – hint #2 – clue words

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

• STAGED
• MEAD
• GRAY
• MODEST
• DWELL
• SULTAN

NYT Strands today (game #737) – hint #3 – spangram letters

NYT Strands today (game #737) – 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 #737) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #737, are…

• HELLO
• HOWDY
• WELCOME
• GREETINGS
• AHOY
• SALUTATIONS
• SPANGRAM: GOODDAY

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

I am reminded of the lyrics “hell is in hello” from the musical Paint Your Wagon because this is how I began today’s game of Strands.

It comes from the song Wandering Star, which was crooned magnificently gruffly by the actor Lee Marvin, whose character preferred to leave places rather than arrive at them.

Unlike Mr Marvin, I love fancy people with ostentatious vocabulary and would love to be greeted every morning by someone, preferably a butler with a tray of tea and toast offering me SALUTATIONS.

I’m also partial to an AHOY — this was Alexander Graham Bell’s proposed telephone greeting, something his less nautically inclined telephonic rival Thomas Edison replaced with the less jaunty HELLO.

Missing from this list is the term for hello everyone used throughout my school years, the now largely redundant “watcha” and its goodbye equivalent “seeya”.

Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday, March 9, game #736)

• PUMPKIN
• BEAN
• MUFFIN
• NUGGET
• DUMPLING
• PEANUT
• SPANGRAM: ENDEARMENTS

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).