Today's NYT Strands Puzzle: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Tuesday, August 12th
Looking for yesterday's Strands? Find hints, clues and answers right here.
Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme.
Spoilers ahead.
Today's Strands Hints
Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words.
Today's Theme: Spitting image
FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™
Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase
Pinpoint By Linkedin
Guess The Category
Queens By Linkedin
Crown Each Region
Crossclimb By Linkedin
Unlock A Trivia Ladder
Hint: Doppelganger
Clue: This is pretty straightforward. Words that mean mirror image or clone.
Here are the first two letters of each word:
Remember, spoilers ahead!
What Are Today's Strands Answers?
Today's spangram is: COPYTHAT
Here's the full list of words:
Here's the completed Strands grid:
I kind of dislike these very obvious Strands themes. I prefer when there's some clever play on words, or when the theme is obvious but still involves very difficult words. Words for 'spitting image' could all be spit-related, for instance. Saliva, phlegm, slobber. Instead, we get REPLICA and DOUBLE and FACSIMILE (that one I thought of right away). COPYTHAT isn't even a particularly interesting spangram. Oh well, I guess we need easy Strands puzzles sometimes. It's just a bit too often for my liking.
How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook.
Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
9 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Macaulay Culkin And Brenda Song's 4-Year-Old Son Said He Wants To Marry Someone 'As Pretty As' Brenda's 'Suite Life' Character — Totally Unaware That's His Mom
Macaulay Culkin has revealed that his and Brenda Song's two children, 2-year-old Carson and 4-year-old Dakota, have no idea that their parents are famous, and he is keen to keep this 'illusion' for as long as possible. Despite this, Macaulay, 44, admitted that he does put The Suite Life of Zack & Cody on for his children when Brenda isn't around, with Brenda famously playing London Tipton in the hit Disney series from the age of 15. Related: And in a seriously wholesome turn of events, Mac said that Dakota is low-key in awe of London — totally unaware that she is his mom. During his recent appearance on Hot Ones, the Home Alone actor said: 'My kids have no idea that me and Brenda are famous.' Related: "They see mama on TV, when she's not around, I put on Suite Life, and you know what Dak said? He goes: 'Someday I want to grow up and marry a girl just as pretty as London Tipton.'' "But they are thoroughly unimpressed that we're on TV and stuff like that," Macaulay then revealed. "I'm not intending to raise a nepo baby." Related: And Macaulay went on to say that after a lifetime of fame, he is embracing only being known as his children's dad when he does the school run. Reflecting on the innocence of kids, he shared: "It's like I've been famous like virtually my entire life. I take my kids to school and the other kids go: 'That's Dak and Carson's dad.' And I'm dad-famous there, and I want to keep that up, even if it's just temporary, even it's just an illusion." "I've never felt more famous, like more complete famous, than that," he concluded. "I try to, at the very least, keep up the illusion." Related: As always, let me know your thoughts on Macaulay's comments down below! More on this Macaulay Culkin Branded His Abusive Father 'The Worst Person' He's 'Ever Known' As He Confirmed He's Not Spoken To Him In Over 30 YearsStephanie Soteriou · April 1, 2025 "My Agents Dropped Me Over This Decision": Brenda Song Recalled Being Fired By Her Agent After Committing To Mark Zuckerberg MovieChelsea Stewart · June 8, 2025 I'm Laughing At The Reason Why Macaulay Culkin Likes "Home Alone 2" More Than The First OneMatt Stopera · Aug. 11, 2025 Also in Celebrity: Also in Celebrity: Also in Celebrity:
Yahoo
9 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds among stars joining TIFF's speaker series
Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to take part in the Toronto International Film Festival's 'In Conversation With…' series next month. The lineup also includes filmmakers Park Chan-wook and Nia DaCosta, who will join the others in candid talks about their careers and craft. The stars of South Korean female thriller "Project Y" are also taking part in what TIFF is billing as a conversation for audiences under 25 years of age. Titled "Close-Up," the inaugural Gen Z-facing event will feature Han So-hee and Jun Jong-seo, who have also appeared in K-pop music videos. The schedule for all 291 official selections for the 50th edition of TIFF is now live on the festival's website. Among films announced Tuesday are the world premieres of Claire Denis' Africa-set drama 'The Fence' and Pablo Trapero's '& Sons,' a family drama based on an adapted screenplay by Sarah Polley. TIFF runs from Sept. 4 to 14 and will open with "John Candy: I Like Me," a documentary on the late Canadian comic. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 12, 2025. Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press
TechCrunch
10 minutes ago
- TechCrunch
Cassette's new app turns your videos into retro, VHS-like home movies
Longing for the nostalgia of watching home movies, like in the VHS days, but stuck with all your personal videos saved on an iPhone? Sure, you can AirPlay them to the TV, but the experience is not the same. This struggle inspired developer Devin Davies to create Cassette, a new iOS app that plays back videos in a format similar to VHS, making your iPhone videos feel more like old home recordings. To use the app, you virtually 'load' one of the tapes laid out across the screen by selecting the year's videos you want to view. The videos are labeled with what look like handwritten stickers with the year attached to the VHS tape's cover sleeve. You can then watch your life unfold on the screen with no further interaction required on your part. Image Credits:Cassette This lean-back experience introduces a new way to consume the media you have saved on your device, which is often left unviewed after the initial recording. The idea for Cassette was prompted by Davies' friend and fellow app developer Charlie Chapman, who is also a senior advocate at RevenueCat, a platform that helps mobile app developers manage in-app purchases and subscriptions. Chapman complained in a group chat about how watching home movies as a family today just wasn't the same as it used to be when watching old family videotapes. He said he wished there was a way to AirPlay videos to the TV and then have them immediately play one after the other. Davies, best known for his award-winning recipe app Crouton, jumped on the idea, hacking together Cassette from a custom slideshow app he had made for Apple TV. He later shared a test build with the group chat. Techcrunch event Tech and VC heavyweights join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil — just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda. They're here to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don't miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech — grab your ticket now and save up to $600+ before prices rise. Tech and VC heavyweights join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital — just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda. They're here to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don't miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech — grab your ticket now and save up to $675 before prices rise. San Francisco | REGISTER NOW Image Credits:Cassette 'I kid you not, the entire group chat had this profound experience with our partners where we stayed up all night watching our kids grow up before our eyes,' Chapman told TechCrunch. 'I've never experienced 'product market fit,' or whatever you want to call it, like this before,' he said. The app itself offers a clever and simple design, where you're presented with rows of VHS tapes, in all their retro splendor. You tap on one to virtually 'load' it into the TV icon at the top of the iPhone's screen to start playing the video. With AirPlay, you can also mirror your device to a TV to watch the full experience play out on the big screen. The videos themselves include a location, date, and timestamp displayed in a retro pixel font that looks like the old screen fonts used on VHS tapes. (Even if you're too young to remember VHS tapes, seeing old videos in this format pulls on the heartstrings. That could be because old home movies are still regularly referenced in modern movies and TV shows during sentimental moments and scenes.) In practice, there were some challenges that the app still needs to overcome. If you have a habit of downloading online videos, like TikToks or Reels, these will show up among your 'home movies.' However, Davies tells TechCrunch that the app is already filtering out screen recordings, and he's now looking to see if TikTok videos could be filtered out, too. To support its development, Cassette offers an optional premium subscription (dubbed 'ColorPlus') that allows users to manually select a VHS tape instead of having the app play a video at random. This costs either $0.99 per month or $5.99 per year. There's also an affordable Lifetime unlock for $7.99, which can go a long way toward supporting indie projects like this. The app is a free download for iPhone and iPad.
