Today's NYT Strands hints and answer: solutions to game #877, July 28

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Need a bit of help with NYT Strands today? No shame in that, and you've come to the right place. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #877 as well as the answers, should it come to that.

We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #877, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #877.

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Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #877 is... "Leave nothing out".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Everything accounted for."

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

  • WETTER
  • DUNE
  • COMET
  • LITHE
  • DEAD
  • CENTER
  • LATTER
  • DEALER

Still struggling? The spangram touches two opposite sides of the board (but can start and end anywhere), and will give you a hint about the connection between the answers. Today, it starts with 'I' and ends with 'E'.

Scroll down to find out what it is...


It's ITSALLTHERE.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #877?

Drumroll, please...

  • WHOLE
  • FULL
  • COMPLETE
  • UNDIVIDED
  • ENTIRE
  • TOTAL

Strands #877

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Strands #877

“Leave nothing out”

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Hi Strands fans. It's just as well I found two answers quickly, or I wouldn't have had a clue what the theme of "Leave nothing out" meant.

Fortunately, I did see two answers. WHOLE at the bottom of the board, and FULL to its right.

So I began to think of synonyms for things being complete, starting, of course, with COMPLETE itself, which I found in the top-left corner.

I then spotted UNDIVIDED in a loop in the middle of the board, which left a gap for the spangram of ITSALLHERE (also in a loop).

That isolated two words in opposite corners to complete the puzzle. ENTIRE was in the top right, with TOTAL in the bottom left.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Strands answers for game #876.

Strands #876

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  • PLATFORM
  • COUNTER
  • TRACK
  • TICKET
  • BENCH
  • KIOSK

...and the spangram was TRAINSTATION.

Strands #876

“Let the journey begin”

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Hi Strands fans. A pretty easy one today, if you travel by rail as much as I do. In fact, I'm writing this while sitting on a train which has absolutely not been designed with typing in mind, which is harder than the puzzle itself.

I spotted PLATFORM along the top row first of all, and then the spangram of TRAINSTATION snaking along the bottom three rows.

From that moment on, it was just a case of brainstorming things you might see at a train station. COUNTER was written up the left-hand side next to the spangram, while TRACK was on the opposite side.

TICKET was above that, with BENCH to its left. That meant I just needed to connect KIOSK above and to the left to complete the puzzle.

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