NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #430 (Wednesday, May 7 2025)
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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Training day" — is a little misleading and those outside the U.S may struggle with some of the answers too.
Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #430, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #430, so read on if you need a little help.
Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #430. You may like Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints
The official theme for NYT Strands #430 is... "Training day".
And here's an unofficial hint from me: "The rail deal".
If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens: TABLED
GOOSE
BALED
BEARD
DONGLE
HOPE
NOTABLE
Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with A and ends with D.
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It's ALLABOARD. Today's Strands answers
So, what are today's Strands answers for game #430?
Drumroll, please... HOPPER
BOXCAR
ENGINE
CABOOSE
FLATBED
GONDOLA
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...and the spangram was ALLABOARD
Strands #430
'Training day'
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Hi Strands fans. Today's is a really tricky one, especially if you're outside of the U.S. like me. Some of the terminology involved is definitely American English.
I actually got off to a decent start, as I saw the word "board" along the bottom, and was then able to expand it to the spangram of ALLABOARD. So I immediately knew it was about trains, which helped me find HOPPER above it on the left-hand side.
I was stumped after that, however, and needed to use two clues to continue. These revealed two words I should have got: ENGINE and BOXCAR along the top of the board.
I then found CABOOSE on the right, which I had no idea was anything to do with trains, and FLATBED above it. That just left GONDOLA - another word I wouldn't associate with trains - to complete a tricky little puzzle. Yesterday's Strands answers
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