NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, December 23 (game #660)

NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, December 23 (game #660) My clues will help you solve the NYT's Strands today and keep that streak going (Image credit: New York Times) A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone - which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, December 22 (game #659) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle , Spelling Bee and Connections - and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #660) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? • Today's NYT Strands theme is... Br-r-r-r-r! NYT Strands today (game #660) - hint #2 - clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. HILL CROP SNIFF GHOST FLINTY CAROL NYT Strands today (game #660) - hint #3 - spangram letters How many letters are in today's spangram? • Spangram has 8 letters NYT Strands today (game #660) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches? First side: top, 4th column Last side: bottom, 4th column Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #660) - the answers The answers to today's Strands, game #660, are... CHILLY FREEZING COOL GLACIAL COLD POLAR FRIGID SPANGRAM: NOTSOHOT My rating: Easy My score: Perfect A quick and easy game with an obvious theme and some easy early spots. Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Finland, famously, has 23 different words for snow, but I’d say the English language comes pretty close when it comes to describing CHILLY weather. Many of the words that describe NOTSOHOT conditions were absent from today’s word search including nippy, frosty, brisk, bitter, arctic and my favorite, which may not have made it to common parlance outside of the UK, “taters”, often combined with the phrase “it’s taters sarge”, an idiom which stems from Cockney rhyming slang for cold or possibly potatoes, no one knows. Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Monday, December 22, game #659) SCARF BOOK CANDLE GADGET WINE LOTION EARRINGS SPANGRAM: REGIFTING What is NYT Strands? Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games...

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