NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, July 15 (game #134)

NYT Strands homescreen on a mobile phone screen, on a light blue background

(Image credit: New York Times)

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Hint #1: Today's theme
Hint #2: Clue words
Hint #3: Spangram
Hint #4: Spangram position
Today's answers
Yesterday's answers

Today's Strands was a rather frustrating one for me, and maybe for you too. If you need hints, read on.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

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 #134) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Give it the ol' college try

NYT Strands today (game #134) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

THRONE
WEST
TOWN
SITE
WREST
TEMP

NYT Strands today (game #134) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

• Places of learning

NYT Strands today (game #134) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

• First: right, 5th row

• Last: left, 5th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #134) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 134 on a blue background — (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #134, are…

DUKE
RICE
TUFTS
NORTHWESTERN
BROWN
TEMPLE
SPANGRAM: UNIVERSITIES

My rating: Hard
My score: 4 hints

This was one of those Strands puzzles made much harder for me by accident of my birth outside of the United States. As I've mentioned before, I live in the UK, and with all due respect to the attendees, past and present, of TUFTS, RICE and TEMPLE, I'm not an expert in US universities. It's easier in the UK; think of a town or city and you've most likely named a university too, which seemingly isn't the case in the States.

The upshot of that is that I needed multiple hints to solve today's game. I managed to find the spangram, UNIVERSITIES, on my own, plus NORTHWESTERN and BROWN, but that was it. Frustrating.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday 14 July, game #133)

MERRY
WHINNY
GALE
FILL
PEAT
HAIRY
RUSTLE
ATOM
SPANGRAM: HOMOPHONES

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).