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NYT Strands Today – Hints, Spangram, and Answers for Game #251 (Saturday, November 9, 2024)

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NYT Strands Today – Hints, Spangram, and Answers for Game #251 (Saturday, November 9, 2024)

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s theme – ‘Generation jam’ – can be quite tricky if you weren’t born in a certain era.

Below we’ve collected some helpful tips for Strands #251, as well as the answers, should it ever come to that. We’ll start with some clues before moving on to the full answer for Strands #251, so read on if you need some help.

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Strands #251.

Today’s NYT Strands Answer: Today’s Theme and Hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #251 is… “Generational jam“.

And here’s an unofficial hint from me: “Sound of a Decade.”

If you’re still in the dark, here are some helpful words to give you valuable clue chips:

vain
TO NOTICE
MELTS
STOLEN
PAVAT
TYRES
VOLE
LUST

Still struggling? The spangram gives you a hint about the connecting word. Nowadays it starts with ‘N’ and ends with ‘S’.

Scroll down and find out what it is…

It’s NINETIESBANDS.

Today’s Strands answers

So, what are today’s Strands answers for game #251?

Drum roll, please…

Blur
NIRVANA
OASIS
SIDEWALK
TOOL
SUBLIME

Skeins #251

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the spangram was NINETIESBANDS.

Skeins #251

“Generation Jam”

💡🔵🔵🔵

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Hello Strands fans. Since I was a teenager in the 90s, this was the dream subject for me!

Or that would have been the case if I had immediately figured out what the theme was. Unfortunately, it was a bit too vague for me, and I had to use a clue that revealed BLUR.

I was a bit surprised by this, as I didn’t think Blur was as big in the States as it was on my side of the Atlantic. Nevertheless, I was off naming ’90s bands. I found NIRVANA right below BLUR, followed by OASIS in the opposite corner.

I was now ready to tackle the spangram: NINETIESBANDS spelled from top to bottom on the board. That drew my attention to PAVEMENT next to it, which left four letters on that side of the grid that needed to be turned into TOOL.

To be honest, I had never heard of the latter. Luckily it was just a matter of decoding an anagram, which I eventually did, spelling out SUBLIME and completing a nice nostalgic puzzle.

Yesterday’s Strands answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday’s Strands answers for game #250 here.

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