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Today's NYT Strands Tips, Answers and Help May 15th #438

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Today, NYT chain puzzles can be easy for car enthusiasts and animal lovers – there is a mix of two themes in this puzzle. If you need tips and answers, please continue reading.

I delve into the chain rules of this story.

If you are looking for today's word, connection and mini crossword answers, you can visit CNET's NYT puzzle tips page.

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Tips for today's chain puzzle

Today's stock theme is: Animal drive.

If that doesn't help, here's a clue: Barracuda is another.

Clue words to unlock tips in the game

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle topic. If you are stuck, find any words. Whenever you find three words with four letters or more letters, the chain reveals one of the topic words. These are the words I used to get these tips, but any words with four or more letters you find will work:

  • coat, grub, mope, glee, beat, gnat, brat, roaming, time, peel, grave, mile, bile.

Answers to today's chain puzzle

These are the answers that are linked to the topic. The purpose of the puzzle is to find all of this, including spangram, a topic word, from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of this (I initially thought there were always eight, but learned that this number might be different), every letter on the board will be used. This is the non-cross-angle answer:

  • beetle, wild horse, impala, jaguar, rabbit, wild horse

Today's Chain Ball

Finished NYT Strands puzzle May 15, 2025 #438

The complete NYT chain puzzle is May 15, 2025, #438.

NYT/screenshot of CNET

Today's strand chain is automobile. To find it, the three letters starting from a go down from the second row on the left and then go down.



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