NYT Strands Today – Clues, Spangram and Answers for Game #286 (Saturday, December 14, 2024)

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s topic: “Nothing can stop me!” – is pretty stupid, even if there are a few answers on the board.

Below we’ve put together some useful tips for Strands #286, as well as answers if it comes to that. We’ll start with some hints before moving on to the full answer for Strands #286. So read on if you need a little help.

Warning: There are spoilers for Strands #286.

Today’s Answer from NYT Strands – Today’s Topic and Notes

The official theme for NYT Strands #286 is… “Nothing can stop me!”

And here’s an unofficial note from me: “You need ambition.”

If you are still in the dark, here are some useful words that will give you the valuable clue tokens:

TESTS
VOICES
FRIED
TINNY
DETERRENT
STARING
TENNIS

Are you still having problems? The Spangram gives you a clue about the connecting word. Today it starts with “G” and ends with “R”.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

It’s GOGETTER.

Today’s Strands Answers

So what are today’s Strands answers for game #286?

Drum roll please…

FIRE
DRIVE
DEVOTION
PURPOSE
DEVOTION
INTENSITY

Strands #286

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…and the Spangram was GOGETTER.

Strands #286

“Nothing can stop me!”

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Hello Strands fans. A tricky day today, also thanks to the dull topic: “Nothing can stop me!”. It makes sense to look back at the finished board, but when you have an empty grid in front of you, there’s not much to hold on to.

That’s why I ended up having to use no less than three clues before I got the matter under control. They produced FIRE, DRIVE and PASSION, and at that point I finally realized what it all meant. I must be having a slow day.

Anyway, those three words made it clear that it was about ambition, so I moved on to the remaining four words. In the bottom right corner I found PURPOSE, followed by DEVOTION in the top half.

I was then able to spell GOGETTER across the spangram so there was only one answer left. I solved the anagram of TESNNIITY to spell INTENSITY and solved the puzzle. Painful, but I did it in the end.

Yesterday’s Strands answers

Are you reading this in a later time zone? The full article on yesterday’s Strands responses can be found here Game #285 here.

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