NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, March 4 (game #731)

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

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, March 3 (game #730).

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.

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

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Piece of cake

NYT Strands today (game #731) - hint #2 - clue words

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

SLANG
STING
FALL
CAFE
SOFA
SELL

NYT Strands today (game #731) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 11 letters

NYT Strands today (game #731) - hint #4 - spangram position

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

First side: bottom, 1st column

Last side: bottom, 2nd column

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

NYT Strands today (game #731) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 731 on a blue background

The answers to today's Strands, game #731, are…

SUGAR
FLOUR
VANILLA
CANDLES
FROSTING
COCOA
SPANGRAM: BAKINGAISLE

My rating: Moderate
My score: Perfect

I like baking cakes, and have made a few nice ones over the years for my kids' birthdays.

My biggest success was a Pikachu/Pokemon cake I made when they were young, at which point I realized an important truth about these things: moldable frosting (more often called 'icing' in the UK) can do a lot of hard work towards turning something unrecognizable into something that will delight a seven-year-old. Seriously — you could almost forget about the cake inside it and just give them a pile of shaped yellow frosting and they'll be happy.

Despite this being a relatively straightforward Strands puzzle it took me the longest time to identify the Spangram. I spotted BAKING early on, and having already found SUGAR and FLOUR knew what the general theme was. But BAKING AISLE? That second half of the phrase took me a while.

Still, I got there in the end, and none of the other answers were too tricky apart from CANDLES, which I didn't think of initially due to them not being an ingredient as such.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, March 3, game #730)

ORDERLY
TIDY
NEAT
SHIPSHAPE
CLEAN
IMMACULATE
SPANGRAM: SPRUCEDUP

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.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).

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