NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, November 26 (game #268)

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 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.

Your Strands expert

Your Strands expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Strands today (game #268) – hint #1 – today’s theme

NYT Strands today (game #268) – hint #2 – clue words

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

NYT Strands today (game #268) – hint #3 – spangram

NYT Strands today (game #268) – hint #4 – spangram position

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

NYT Strands today (game #268) – the answers

The answers to today’s Strands, game #268, are…

• TOTE
• BARREL
• MESSENGER
• BUCKET
• DUFFEL
• CROSSBODY
• SPANGRAM: HANDBAGS

• My rating: Moderate
• My score: 2 hints

Full disclosure: I am not an expert in HANDBAGS and struggled to solve today’s game, let alone write about it. So don’t expect too much in the way of entertaining or enlightening insight here (not that you necessarily get that on any day).

So yes, HANDBAGS. Those things you carry stuff around in. Apparently BARREL and BUCKET and DUFFEL and CROSSBODY are all examples, but I didn’t know that until now. TOTE and MESSENGER too, but I thought of them more as bags in general, rather than handbags. I accept that I was wrong about this. I solved it by using two hints, then looking for random words, rather than knowing they might be answers. It took a while and was tedious and I’m glad the whole ordeal is over now. If, however,…