NYT Strands Today – Clues, Spangram and Answers for Game #251 (Saturday November 9, 2024)

by Junna Base November 9, 2024

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Need help with NYT Strands today? Today’s topic – “Generation Jam” – might be quite difficult if you weren’t born in a specific time.

Below we’ve put together some useful hints for Strands #251, as well as answers should it come up. We’ll start with some hints before moving on to the full answer for Strands #251. So read on if you need a little help.

Warning: There are spoilers for Strands #251.

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

The official theme for NYT Strands #251 is… “Generational jam“.

And here’s an unofficial note from me: “Sound of a decade.”

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

VAIN
BRANDS
MELTS
STOLEN
PAVED
BANDS
VOLE
DESIRE

Are you still having problems? The Spangram gives you a clue to the connecting word. Today it starts with “N” and ends with “S”.

Scroll down to find out what it is…

They’re nineties bands.

Today’s Strands Answers

So what are today’s Strands answers for game #251?

Drum roll please…

BLUR
NIRVANA
OASIS
WALKWAY
TOOL
SUBLIMATE

(Image credit: Alan Martin)

…and the spangram was NINETIESBANDS.

Strands No. 251

“Generational traffic jam”

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Hello Strands fans. Since I was a teenager in the 90’s, this was the dream theme for me!

Or it would have been so if I had immediately found out what the topic was. Unfortunately it was a bit too vague for me and I had to use a clue that revealed BLUR.

I was a little surprised by this, as I didn’t think Blur would be as big in the United States as it is on my side of the Atlantic. Still, I was out naming bands from the ’90s. Just below BLUR I found NIRVANA, followed by OASIS in the opposite corner.

Now I was ready to tackle the Spangram: NINETIESBANDS written from top to bottom on the board. This drew my attention to PAVEMENT next to it, leaving four letters on that side of the grid that could be twisted to TOOL.

I have to admit that I had never heard of the latter. Luckily, I only had to decode one anagram, which I finally did by spelling SUBLIME and solving a nice nostalgic puzzle.