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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 18, #929

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Why This Matters

This piece is a routine daily puzzle-help guide for the NYT Strands game, offering hints and answers for the Sept. 18 edition. While not tech news, it reflects the broader trend of media outlets like CNET building recurring, low-cost content around popular puzzle games to drive daily reader engagement and traffic.

Key Takeaways

Looking for the most recent NYT Strands puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Strands is like a word find game, but without the list of words to find. Sometimes I see the theme and begin recognizing the answers right away. But for those times when I can’t seem to manage this, there’s a loophole: Strands lets you make as many words of four or more letters as you want. For every three of those words you find, the puzzle will highlight one of the answers. You’re still going to have to unscramble that answer, though, which can be very tough.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

Today’s puzzle isn’t too tough, though some of the answers are tricky to unscramble. Read on for hints and all the answers.

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Shake on it.

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Shared understanding.

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints, but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

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