NYT Strands Today – Clues, Spangram and Answers for Game #226 (Tuesday, October 15, 2024)

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Need some help with NYT Strands today? Today's topic – “Beast Mode” – is quite difficult to decipher and actually ends up being quite a broad topic.

Below we've put together some useful hints for Strands #226, as well as answers should it come to that. We'll start with some hints before moving on to the full answer for Strands #226. So read on if you need a little help.

Warning: There are spoilers for Strands #226.

Today's Answer from NYT Strands – Today's Topic and Notes

The official theme for NYT Strands #226 is… “Beast Mode”.

And here's an unofficial note from me: “Non-human elements.”

If you are still in the dark, here are some useful words that will give you the valuable clue tokens:

HORROR
SCARF
TEETH
GLITTER
GRIN
THERE

Are you still having problems? The Spangram gives you a clue to the connecting word. Today it starts with “C” and ends with “E”.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It's CREATUREFEATURE.

Today's Strands Answers

So what are today's Strands answers for game #226?

Drum roll please…

HAIR
SLEEVE
SCALE
TAIL
HORN
WING
FEATHER

Strands #226

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the spangram was CREATUREFEATURE.

Strands #226

“Beast Mode”

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Hello Strands fans. Well, I really struggled with today's puzzle. “Beast Mode” as a theme made me think of Halloween monsters, which certainly didn't help, but even without that distraction I found the answers to be pretty far apart.

It probably didn't help that the first answer I got via a clue on the board was HAIR. That doesn't limit the topic, of course, but I started boldly anyway, picking up words here and there: SHELL, SCALE, TAIL and HORN from across the spectrum.

Well, that all sounded pretty monstrous, but I couldn't think of any creatures that would combine it all, so I had to use another clue. This revealed WING, which… cleared up nothing, so I had to use another one. FEATHER.

What do these have in common? It turns out that it is very little. With only the Spangram left, I was able to decipher it through trial and error: CREATUREFEATURE.

In other words, these are all things that different species of mammals, reptiles and birds might have, I guess? Not my favorite puzzle so far, as you probably already guessed.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? The full article on yesterday's Strands responses can be found here Game #225 here.

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