NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, August 5 (game #155)

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

Your Strands week starts here, with a difficult instalment from the NYT that you may well need some help with. I certainly did…

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

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Rolling in it

NYT Strands today (game #155) - hint #2 - clue words

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

TENT
TONE
TONED
LAIR
WEAR
ROPE

NYT Strands today (game #155) - hint #3 - spangram

What is a hint for today's spangram?

• Like Croesus

NYT Strands today (game #155) - hint #4 - spangram position

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

• First: left, 6th row

• Last: right, 3rd row

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

NYT Strands today (game #155) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 155 on a blue background — (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #155, are…

MONEYED
WEALTHY
OPULENT
AFFLUENT
PROSPEROUS
SPANGRAM: THATSRICH

My rating: Hard
My score: 3 hints

Today's Strands was a really tough one that I needed lots of hints for – three, to be exact. The first got me started, because I had zero idea what 'Rolling in it' referred to. That gave me MONEYED (although it took me a while to work out what the word was even once the Strands board had highlighted it for me), but though the concept was now clear, the other words weren't.

To make matters worse, I spotted RICH fairly early on, but couldn't work out what the rest of the phrase was to (presumably) make the spangram. I eventually solved THATSRICH at the end by default, having used two further hints to uncover OPULENT and AFFLUENT.

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

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday 4 August, game #154)

RING
MIDDLE
PALM
PINKY
THUMB
CUTICLE
NAIL
POINTER
SPANGRAM: ONHAND

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).