Today's NYT Strands - Game #299 (Friday, December 27, 2024) Hints, Spangrams and Answers

Today's NYT Strands - Game #299 (Friday, December 27, 2024) Hints, Spangrams and Answers

Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Back in Style,” is especially difficult for young people.

Below are the hints and answers for Strand #299. We'll start with the hints and then the full answer to Strand #299.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #299.

The official theme for NYT Strands #299 is... “Back in Style.”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “A Decade Far Away.”

If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that give you valuable hint tokens:

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with E and ends with S.

Scroll down to find out what it is.

EIGHTIES.

Now, what's the answer to today's strand?

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was EIGHTIES.

Strands #299

“Back in style”

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Hello Strands fans! This one felt pretty tricky to me - even as a child of the 1980s, I can't say that all the styles and fashions immediately came to mind, so I can only imagine how a younger person would have coped.

I had an idea what the “back in style” theme was referring to, but I hadn't narrowed down the decade, so I used the hints, as a search for “flare” and “mini skirt” turned up nothing.

As a result, NEON was hit and I was able to focus. I soon found JUMPSUIT on the right and SPANDEX above it. Then I saw MULLET in the lower left corner.

After this flurry, I was struggling again, so I used the second clue and found PERM in the lower right, which gave me enough space to complete the spangram: EIGHTIES.

The only answer left was one in the upper left, but it was a long anagram Eventually, it was successfully deciphered: WINDBREAKER.

Are you reading this late? The full article on the Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 298 can be found here.

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