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NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #794)

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 Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #793).

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 #794) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is… Get-up-and-go!

NYT Strands today (game #794) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

  • DAME
  • MAIN
  • SAILS
  • CLAIM
  • PAIL
  • RISK

NYT Strands today (game #794) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

Spangram has 12 letters

NYT Strands today (game #794) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: left, 6th row

Last side: right, 1st row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #794) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 794 on a blue background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #794, are…

  • SOAR
  • CLIMB
  • ASCEND
  • SPARKLE
  • SHIMMER
  • RADIATE
  • SPANGRAM: RISEANDSHINE
  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

Yesterday we had DIGITALCLOCK and today we have RISEANDSHINE. Is someone at NYT receiving subliminal messages about their tardiness via the medium of Strands, I wonder? Or maybe it’s just a coincidence…

Either way, this was a great game to get the brain working at the start of the day with a few tricky spots among the more obvious ones like SOAR in the board's key position of the top left-hand corner.

Meanwhile, please tell me I wasn’t the only one to miss that the diagonal spangram divided the game into two sets of words — rising on one side and shining on the other. 

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, May 5, game #793)

  • ALARM
  • SNOOZE
  • TIME
  • RADIO
  • DATE
  • DISPLAY
  • TUNER
  • SPANGRAM: DIGITALCLOCK

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 how 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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