NYT Strands Today: Hints, Spangram & Answers for June 22

Jun. 21, 2024

To solve the Strands today, you’ll probably need to tap into your inner cat and detect letters that fall into an all-too-familiar pattern. If it’s giving you too hard a time though, do take a look at the hints and answers for the June 22 NYT Strands down below!

How to Play NYT Strands

Before I get to decoding the puzzle for today, here’s a quick rundown of how to play NYT Strands for new players:

However, if you want detailed tips and tricks, check out my guide onhow to play NYT Strands.

As revealed by the New York Times, the theme for today’s Strands is“I love the nightlife.”

Spoiler Warning #1:

Every Strands game has that one Spangram that you need to decipher and today’s was no exception. The hint for today’s Spangram is –“These animals stay awake at night”.

If you have figured out the Spangram from the above hint, figuring out the theme words will be easy. However, I don’t want to ruin it for you. Instead, here are some hints that may help you:

While you are here, go and check out the hints and answers fortoday’s NYT Connectionshere.

If these hints are not enough for you to find the Spangram and related theme words, you can fill the in-game hint meter and unlock hints. For today’s Strands, here are some random words I found in my quest to find today’s words —LATE, TOWN, CART, PARS, DUNS, DURN, DUNK, POLE, KART, PARD, RUNS, and LOPE.

Spoiler Warning #2:

The Spangram for today’s NYT Strands puzzle isNOCTURNAL, and it runs fromtop to bottomin the letters grid.

If you have scrolled this far, you are probably ready to see the answers. So, let’s take a look at today’s theme words in Strands:

While my first instinct was to find party-related words in the grids, I knew it wasn’t right. Fortunately, finding WOMBAT and LEOPARD in the grids helped. I found NOCTURNAL as the Spangram right after.

That led me straight to finding SKUNK, COYOTE, and OPOSSUM in the grids. The final grids housed AARDVARK and well, that’s it for today’s Strands!

If you have arrived here by mistake and are looking for the answers and Spangrams to the previous day’s Strands puzzle, find the solution to June 21’s Strands.

Yep, got through today’s Strands without using any hints, yet again. What about you? On a scale of 1-10, how difficult was the Strands today for you? Do cry your heart out in the comments below.

Sagnik is a tech aficionado who can never say “no” to dipping his toes into unknown waters of tech or reviewing the latest gadgets. He is also a hardcore gamer, having played everything from Snake Xenzia to Dead Space Remake.