Listed here are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #909 at present, launched on August twenty ninth, 2026, and a few hints that will help you remedy them.
The New York Occasions are identified for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the every day. That they had additionally revealed the viral phrase sport, Wordle, in 2022, so as to add to their assortment.
A brand new sport has been launched by the paper, known as Strands, which is at the moment in beta. On this sport, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and you must discover the theme associated phrases.
After you have discovered a theme associated phrase, it’ll keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you’ll need to tug or kind the letters. All the letters on the board are used to make up phrases for the theme and the letters don’t overlap into different phrases.

There’s additionally a “spangram” which is a phrase on the board that describes the theme of the puzzle for the day. It is going to contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After you have discovered the spangram phrase, it’ll keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases can be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.

In case you are struggling to search out any phrases regarding the theme, you may try to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will enable you to get hints. You will have to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 909 Hints Today (August twenty ninth, 2026)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “NOW WE’RE COOKING!” and there are seven theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that will help you remedy the Strands puzzle launched at present is:
- There are two phrases within the Spangram at present.
- There are six and 5 letters within the Spangram phrases at present.
Strands 909 Spangram Reply Today (August twenty ninth, 2026)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on August twenty ninth is:
SOUNDS TASTY
The phrase begins within the prime left nook and within the backside proper nook of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase could be seen under:

Strands 909 Resolution Today (8/29/2026)
Listed here are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 909 puzzle:
- HISS
- GURGLE
- BUBBLE
- SIZZLE
- CRACKLE
- SPLATTER

Tell us within the feedback under which phrases you bought caught on.
