NYT Strands hints, answers for March 27

Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.
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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.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Playing the field

The words are baseball-related.

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Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are singular versions of MLB team names in the same league.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is NationalLeague.

NYT Strands word list for March 27

  • Brewer

  • Pirate

  • Giant

  • Brave

  • Dodger

  • Marlin

  • NationalLeague

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