NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, September 14 (game #560)

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NYT Strands homescreen on a mobile phone screen, on a light blue background

(Image credit: New York Times)

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 Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 13 (game #559).

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

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Hurry up!

NYT Strands today (game #560) - hint #2 - clue words

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

THEY
POSY
SLUG
SLADE
LORE
REUSE

NYT Strands today (game #560) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 9 letters

NYT Strands today (game #560) - hint #4 - spangram position

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

First side: left, 4th row

Last side: right, 8th row

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

NYT Strands today (game #560) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 560 on a blue background

The answers to today's Strands, game #560, are…

SLOW
LEISURELY
RELAXED
STEADY
SLUGGISH
POKEY
SPANGRAM: NOTSOFAST

My rating: Hard
My score: Perfect

Here’s a bunch of words that sum up my personal approach to walking anywhere. I’m fully aware that it may upset some impatient people, but unless you need to get somewhere quickly I really do not see the point of hurrying.

Of course I prefer to think of myself as RELAXED and LEISURELY rather than SLOW or SLUGGISH.

I’m more or less the same when it comes to playing Strands, which is just as well as this game was a slog. That said, I was fortunate to leave the one word I didn’t know had anything to do with speed until last. I thought POKEY was used to describe small spaces or prison, rather than annoyingly slow people like me…

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Saturday, September 13, game #559)

EXPECTATIONS
APES
PLAINS
LAKES
AUNTS
MINDS
SPANGRAM: THEYRE GREAT

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.

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.

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