Hints and Answers for NYT Strands on April 8

If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times’ elevated word-search game. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, spanning the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

By providing an opaque hint and not offering 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 solve 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: Out of this world. The words are titles.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained: These words are movies that share an ‘out of this world’ genre. NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal? Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal. NYT Strands spangram answer today: Today’s spangram is ScienceFiction.

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NYT Strands word list for April 8: Gravity, Arrival, Dune, Alien, Megalopolis, ScienceFiction. Looking for other daily online games? Hotnchill has more hints available, and if you’re interested in more puzzles, check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crosswords, and more. Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Strands.