New York Times Strands Hints and Answers for March 18, 2024

Every day, several new words with a new theme arrive to solve in the word-searching game Strands from the New York Times Games.

Strands has a new word puzzle for today. If you like searching for hidden words but want a little bit of a challenge, today’s puzzle will be for you. In this currently in-beta game from the New York Times Games, you will need to know the rules of how to play Strands, be able to locate all the words inside the puzzle, and maybe a few hints to win today’s puzzle. If you aren’t looking to us the in-game hint system, you can check out the article below for spoilers and general hints to the puzzle.

The NYT Games Strands Puzzle #15 for March 18, 2024

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Today’s Strands has eight total words to find: seven hidden words and one category called the Spangram. The hint for today’s puzzle is World Piece.

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New York Times Games Strands Clues

If you are feeling stuck but don’t want to use the in-game hint system, you can check out the sections below. Each on contains a little hint to the overall puzzle to make things a little bit easier in this difficult puzzle game.

General Hint 1

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Hint 1
: What could “pieces of the world” mean?

General Hint 2

Hint 2
: One of the words in the puzzle is Plain.

General Hint 3

Spoilers for Two of the Words in Today’s Strands

If you are looking to see one of the words and locations of that word in today’s puzzle, check below. Each expandable section has one word only in them.

Spoiler 1

Spoiler 2

The Answer to Today’s New York Times Games Strands

Just want to see the full spoiler? In the expandable section below, you can find the complete answer to the New York Times GamesStrands puzzle number 15. Beware of big spoilers from this point forward.

The category for today is
Terrain
. The words are Marsh, Mountain, Swamp, Desert, Tundra, Forest, and Plain.

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Today’s Strands Explained

If you want to know how the Spangram, the clue, and the words all go together, check out the box below. Press the Read More button for this spoiler.

The clue is
World Pieces
, meaning pieces of the planet, and those pieces are terrain. So a Mountain, a Swamp, and a Plain are all pieces of the world.

Want to play? Check out the New York Times Games Strands website available on almost any device with a browser.