NYT Strands is a great brain teaser that makes you think hard, build connections, and recall random words loosely connected to a theme. The game presents a new grid with a different theme every day. But if you missed yesterday’s puzzle and need help solving it, you have come to the right spot. Here are the NYT Strands hints and answers for yesterday’s puzzle #787 for April 29, 2026.
Hints of Yesterday’s NYT Strands
As described above, NYT Strands is a word-guessing game. It presents you with a grid of letters, and the goal is to find words that are based on or connected to a central theme. Like a crossword puzzle. But it has a twist; there’s a special word hidden in every game that spans across the length or width of the game, and it is called Spangram. Finding it could make it easy to solve Strands.
In case you still need some guidance on how to play NYT Strands, we have a dedicated guide for the same. With the basics cleared, you are ready to tackle yesterday’s NYT Strands game.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands Theme
Today’s theme is:
Items found in a fisherman’s box
While the hint for yesterday’s theme should help you connect the dots and figure out the answer to the Strands game, we have included additional hints for your ease here:
If the above hint isn’t much of a help, here are some more clues to help you find yesterday’s words:
- RE
- HO
- WE
- BO
- LU
- PL
- SW
- CO
- TA
Looking for more NYT puzzle games to play after Strands? Maybe try today’s Connections puzzle
Yesterday’s NYT Strands Spangram Hint
The Strands Spangram hint for yesterday’s puzzle, April 29, 2026, was Horizontal. It starts from the Left and goes to the Right
Yesterday’s Strands Spangram Answer
Still can’t figure out the Spangram? No worries, we got you. Go ahead and reveal the Spangram for yesterday’s NYT Strands game. But proceed at your own risk:
You can click on the reveal letter by letter before uncovering the full solution.
Looking for more word guessing games? Check out today’s Wordle and see if you can solve that one?
Spoiler Alert!
Scroll past this AT YOUR OWN RISK. The theme word answers for yesterday’s Strands below.
NYT Strands Answers for Yesterday’s Puzzle
Let’s come down to the moment you all have been waiting for. Without further ado, here are the answers to yesterday’s NYT Strands for April 29th, 2026.
- REEL
- HOOK
- WEIGHT
- BOBBER
- LURE
- PLIERS
- SWIVEL
- COOLER
Difficulty Level for Yesterday’s Strands Puzzle
I have been playing NYT Strands for a couple of years now. So every day, I assign a difficulty score to each day’s puzzle on a scale of 1 to 5. Here, 1 is the easiest, and 5 is the hardest in terms of difficulty. So, I would rank yesterday’s game 4 out of 5.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands puzzle was an easy solve, given all the words in today’s grid are pretty easy to spot. It did take me a couple of tries to find the Spangram, given its odd position in the puzzle today, but I did manage to solve the entire puzzle without its help, saving it for last. If you often struggle with solving this word-finding puzzle, check out common challenges in NYT Strands and how to overcome them.
Done with yesterday’s puzzle? Then you might want to go ahead and solve today’s NYT Strands puzzle to continue your streak.
If you are unable to solve puzzle #787, then the Spangram for the Strands puzzle from yesterday, April 29, 2026, is “TACKLE”.
The theme for yesterday’s Strands game was – Fish or cut bait
Similar to Connections and Wordle, NYT Games also offers a dedicated Strands archive page. So, you can subscribe to NYT Games and play old puzzles by selecting the desired date on the website.
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