NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #360 (Wednesday, February 26 2025)
Need help with Strands #360? Here are some hints and the answers
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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme — “Fire represents your life” — is absolutely baffling if you’re outside of the United States.
Below, we’ve compiled some useful hints for Strands #360, 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 #360, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #360.
The official theme for NYT Strands #360 is… “Fire represents your life”.
And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “Reality TV.”
If you’re still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with S and ends with R.
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Scroll down to find out what it is…
It’s SURVIVOR.
So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #360?
Drumroll, please…
…and the spangram was SURVIVOR.
Strands #360
“”Fire represents your life””
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Hi Strands fans. I’m afraid I needed some help with today’s challenge.
I’ve never seen Survivor, and the quote in the theme – “Fire represents your life” – meant absolutely nothing to me, so I had to look it up.
I felt bad about this, but I’m glad I did, as it was purely for U.S. audiences, on a topic that means zero to me. It’s a quote from Jeff Probst, host of SURVIVOR which turned out to be the spangram.
Now I’ve never seen Survivor, but that at least gave me a fighting chance to find words that might be associated with it. I found CHALLENGE written backwards along the bottom of the grid, followed by JURY above the last few letters.
I was then able to find REWARD, and while the word MERGE isn’t one I’d have any idea of, those were the only letters left on the bottom half, so I managed it via the process of elimination.
The top half was a blank canvas, however, and I had to finally use a clue. It revealed ALLIANCE, and from there I was eventually able to decode the remaining letters of MMIYUITN – it’s an anagram of IMMUNITY.
Not an enjoyable puzzle for me, that one, but no doubt I’ve been able to lean on specialist knowledge in the past where others haven’t. Hopefully tomorrow’s will be easier for international audiences, though…
Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday’s Strands answers for game #359 right here.
Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you’ll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.
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If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times’ elevated word-search game.
Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special, word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.
If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.
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