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, November 2 (game #609).

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.

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The answers to today's Strands, game #610, are...

The longest spangram in a long while took up a good chunk of the board and snaked its way from the center to to the bottom to the right-hand side.

The theme though was obvious from the start, with WENT, MARKET, STAYED, and HOME all jammed up against each other like a baby's toes.

The line "this little piggy had roast beef" has always puzzled me. Would a piggy ever eat roast beef, even one who wore a shirt and tie and went to market?

The truth, of course, is like many nursery rhymes rooted in the macabre and the little piggy going to market was going to the slaughterhouse and the piggy eating roast beef was being force fed. No wonder they went wee wee wee all the way home.