Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "In it to win it" — is a little vague, and has at least one answer you may not be familiar with.
Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #398, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #398, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #398.
Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #398 is... "In it to win it"
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Back to winning ways".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
- BACKS
- STEPS
- SPEWS
- PROSE
- PLATES
- PURSE
- TETHER
- HANGERS
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with G and ends with S.
Scroll down to find out what it is...
It's GAMECHANGERS.
Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #398?
Drumroll, please...
- COMEBACK
- ROUT
- RALLY
- UPSET
- SWEEP
- THREEPEAT
...and the spangram was GAMECHANGERS.
Strands #398
“In it to win it”
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Hi Strands fans. Today's puzzle is pretty rough if you're not into sports. Even if you are, you might struggle if you're not American: I've never heard the word "threepeat" before in my life, here in the UK.
I actually got my first answer on the board without assistance: COMEBACK, coiled around the top-left corner. But then I needed a couple of clues, which revealed ROUT near the bottom and RALLY in the top-right corner.
I found UPSET between two of my answers at the top of the board, and that helped me find the spangram of GAMECHANGERS.
Now I had two anagrams to decode at the bottom of the grid. EPEWS pretty easily decoded to SWEEP, but it took a lot of trial and error to figure out TAEHTPREE. It was THREEPEAT, a word I've never heard before in my life.
A bit messy, but I got through it in the end!
Yesterday's Strands answers
Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #397 right here.
