Hints and Answers for NYT Strands – May 19

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 and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

Today’s NYT Strands Theme

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Riding the wind. The words are water-related.

Today’s NYT Strands Theme Explained

These words are things used to travel on water. 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 Sailboat.

Strands 101: How to Win NYT’s Latest Word Game

NYT Strands word list for May 19:

• Mast
• Rigging
• Helm
• Sailboat
• Keel
• Hull
• Rudder
• Stern
• Tiller

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