New York Times Strand Tips and Answers for November 3, 2024

Strands features a brand new 6×8 letter grid filled with a selection of themed words to find. All these words are a mystery, and you have to figure out both them and the main theme based on a single clue. If all that wasn't hard enough, you can use all the letters in the grid just once to win.

If you are struggling with this difficult puzzle game, you can find some useful tips, spoilers and more in the article below. Whatever you need to solve this insane challenge, you can find it in this guide.

NYT Games Strands Puzzle #245 November 3, 2024

The Strands today's puzzle has a clue In my kingdomand it contains eight things to find: Spangrams and seven theme words.

New York Times Games Strands Clues

Although there is a hint system in the game built into the rules for Strandsit gives away whole words instead of just nudging you in the right direction. In the three sections below, you can find spoiler-free hints for the theme of this puzzle.

General tip 1

Tip 1
: What kind of things are there in a kingdom?

General tip 2

Tip 2
: Group your kingdom into categories.

General tip 3

Tip 3
: Animal groups for categorization.

Spoilers for two of the words in today's threads

If you want to see some spoilers, but don't want to look for words without themes to save for a clue, watch the two expandable sections below. Each contains just one spoiled word and a screenshot of where it goes in the letter grid.

Spoiler 1

Spoiler 2

The answer to today's New York Times Games Strands

If you want to see the answer at the New York Times Games Strandshave you scrolled to the right section. Inside the expandable section below are all the themed words, the Spangram, and each goes in the puzzle's grid.

The category for today is
Taxonomy
. The words are Domain, Family, Genus, Phylum, Species, Class and Order.

Today's Strings Explained

Don't understand this minimalist puzzle game's theme, clue and how they fit together? In the section below you can find a summary of everything about this puzzle and what it means.

In my kingdom
is a reference to how Kingdom is the highest standard for categorizing animals into the correct categories. Each of the thematic words are different levels to place animals in the correct groups.

Do you want to play? Check out the New York Times Games Strands website, accessible on almost any device with a web browser.