New York Times Strands Hints and Answers for October 21, 2024

Strands is back with one more challenging puzzle, this time for October 21, 2024. If you want to try out an extremely difficult puzzle game, this is a great one to start with. To win, you need to use every single letter just once while finding all nine of the themed words inside.

But if it’s a little too challenging for you, no problem either. This article will help guide you; it contains everything you need to win today, including general clues, word spoilers, an explanation of the puzzle, and even the full answer if you want it.

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How to Play the New York Times Games Strands

Strands is a short daily word game that pits you against a grid of seemingly random letters that contains a whole bunch of related words.

The NYT Games Strands Puzzle #232 October 21, 2024

The Strands puzzle for October 21, 2024, has the clue We’re In This Together. It contains nine hidden words: the Spangram and eight themed words.

New York Times Games Strands Clues

For some general clues that won’t spoil any of the answers in this innovative puzzle game, check out the three sections below. All three of these sections have just one little hint inside that will help you get closer to the theme.

General Hint 1

Hint 1
: What are some groups of things?

General Hint 2

Hint 2
: A gang, a clutch, a murder, a hive.

General Hint 3

Hint 3
: A group of animals.

Spoilers for Two of the Words in Today’s Strands

If a spoiled word or two would be beneficial to you, but you don’t want to look for non-themed words to save up for an in-game hint, check out the two sections below. Each one has just one spoiled word and a screenshot of where it goes in the puzzle grid.

Spoiler 1

Spoiler 2

The Answer to Today’s New York Times Games Strands

If you just want the complete answer for this browser-based puzzle game, look into the expandable section below. It contains all the themed words and screenshot of where to put all those words in the puzzle’s grid.

The category for today is
GroupName
. The words are Flock, School, Pride, Swarm, Pack, Knot, Herd, and Colony.

Today’s Strands Explained

Don’t get this puzzle today? In the section below, you can find a full explanation for how the clue and the theme go together in this free mobile game similar to Wordle.

We’re all in this together
is a reference to how all these animal
Group Names
are used to describe large groupings of animals of one specific kind. For example, a group of dolphins is a pod or a group of crows is a murder. Each themed word is a different kind of group of animals.

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

Platform(s)

Web Browser

Released

March 4, 2024

Developer(s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)

The New York Times Company