NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, June 15 (game #834)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, June 14 (game #833).

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 NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #834) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Moving mountains

NYT Strands today (game #834) - hint #2 - clue words

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

SQUARE

CORE

GNAT

MORE

VOTER

YOUTH

NYT Strands today (game #834) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 12 letters

NYT Strands today (game #834) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 1st column

Last side: bottom, 5th column

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

NYT Strands today (game #834) - the answers

The answers to today's Strands, game #834, are…

QUASH

CONQUER

VANQUISH

SURMOUNT

OVERCOME

SPANGRAM: YOUVEGOTTHIS

My rating: Hard

My score: 2 hints

Despite the fact that today’s game featured three Qs — a fact that would usually make the search easier — I suffered a bad case of word blindness and failed to see QUASH and CONQUER.

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Fortunately, they were given to me in the form of hints and after spotting the third Q-word in VANQUISH, the spangram magically appeared like a vision out of the mist.

From here it was an easy climb to the top and although I don’t think my efforts quite qualified for the can do message of today’s theme I was pleased to OVERCOME my struggles.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday, June 14, game #833)

EARL

LADY

LORD

BARON

VISCOUNT

MARQUESS

DUCHESS

SPANGRAM: NOBILITY

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.