NYT Strands Hints, Spangram, and Answers for Sunday, November 3

The New York Times‘ daily puzzle, Strands, has released its latest challenge for Sunday, November 3. This puzzle, like its predecessors, requires players to find theme words hidden in a grid of letters. Here’s a breakdown of how to play and some hints to help you solve it.

To play Strands, you need to manipulate letters by dragging or tapping to craft words. Double-tap the final letter to confirm your guess. If you find a correct theme word, the letters will be highlighted blue and become non-selectable. Non-theme words, however, can still be helpful as they provide hints. For every three non-theme words you find that are at least four letters long, the game will reveal the letters of one of the theme words, which you then need to unscramble.

Today’s Strands puzzle has a theme of “In my kingdom,” which might seem cryptic, but here’s a clue to help: think back to biology class. The theme is related to taxonomy, which is the science of classifying living things.

The spangram for today’s puzzle is a special theme word that spans the entire puzzle and summarizes the theme. The spangram for November 3 is “TAXONOMY.” To find it, start with the T that is four letters down on the far left row and wind down and over.

Here are the non-spangram theme words for today’s puzzle: CLASS, GENUS, ORDER, DOMAIN, FAMILY, PHYLUM, and SPECIES. These words are all related to the classification of living organisms.

If you get stuck, finding any words of four or more letters can help. Here are some example words that can unlock in-game hints: TOAD, RODE, MUMPS, MATH, PUSS, LOON, PHAT, HOLY, THAN, MICE, NOOSE, CLAD, SOON, PROD, SOLD, PECS, MOSS, DROP.