NYT Strands Hints and Answers for August 27

Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy in an abstract way. Strands, The New York Times’ elevated word-search game, puts a twist on the classic word search. Players form words by linking letters up, down, left, right, or diagonally, with words able to change direction into quirky shapes and patterns.

Every letter in the grid belongs to an answer. The puzzle’s solutions share a common theme, along with the “spangram,” a special word or phrase that sums up the day’s theme and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

Strands provides an opaque hint without revealing the word list, making it a more time-consuming brain teaser than other NYT games such as Wordle and Connections. If you are stuck or do not have 10 or more minutes to solve today’s puzzle, use the hints below to make progress at your own pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme

Spiraling definitions

The answers are adjectives related to twisting.

Today’s NYT Strands theme explained

Today’s words describe a twist or something that can be twisted.

NYT Strands spangram hint

Is it vertical or horizontal? Today’s NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is What a Twist.

NYT Strands word list for August 27

• Hairstyle
• Dance
• Sprain
• Surprise
• Distortion

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