NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, August 21 (game #536)

Date:
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day
for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, August 20 (game #535) .

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.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #536) -
hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is Marvel-ous and then some NYT Strands today (game #536) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. POWER STORE RIVER THINK ROAD HIRE NYT Strands today (game #536) - hint #3 - spangram letters
How many letters are in today's spangram?

Spangram has 11 letters NYT Strands today (game #536) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 4th column

Last side: bottom, 3rd column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #536) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #536, are HULK WOLVERINE STORM DAREDEVIL THING ROGUE SPANGRAM: SUPERHEROES My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

I spotted the spangram SUPERHEROES first, before I went looking for
characters from the Marvel universe a nice touch to have the letters form an S shape.

I have trouble remembering who is part of the DC family and who is Marvel (apologies) and the one I was certain of Spider-Man was not part of the search (quite possibly because of that pesky hyphen).

I neednt have worried, as you didnt need to have any comic book knowledge to complete todays search; none of the words were particular tricky to unravel and required little expertise.

That said, I did get the two most famous first, in HULK and WOLVERINE, before progressing to the lower tier of superherodom. Yesterday's NYT Strands
answers (Wednesday, August 20, game #535) EURO PESO RAND POUND RUPEE DOLLAR SPANGRAM: GLOBAL CURRENCY What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.



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