Skip to main content Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Search Tom's Guide View Profile Newsletters Best Picks Entertainment Nintendo Switch 2 Tariff tracker Best Mattress Wordle Today NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #406 (Sunday, April 13 2025) Alan Martin 12 April 2025 Need help with Strands #406? Here are some hints and the answers When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Tom’s Guide/NY Times/Shutterstock) Today's hints Today's answers Yesterday's answers Strands today: Quick menu 1. Today's hints 2. Today's answer 3. Yesterday's answer Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Orange door hinge" — spells out the meaning of the puzzle, but it's still a tricky one to complete. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #406, 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 #406, so read on if you need a little help. Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #406. You may like NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #351 (Monday, February 17 2025) NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #397 (Friday, April 4 2025) Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints The official theme for NYT Strands #406 is... "Orange door hinge". And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Poetic shades". If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens: Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with C and ends with S. Sign up to get the BEST of Tom's Guide direct to your inbox. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. 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(Image credit: Alan Martin) ...and the spangram was COLORRHYMES. Strands #406 “Orange door hinge” Hi Strands fans. This proved to be a tricky one. Despite associating "orange" and "door hinge" as a half rhyme, thanks to the Barenaked Ladies song Four Seconds, my immediate assumption was that this would be words that people consider to be unrhymeable. This quickly proved not to be the case, as I found QUEEN and HELLO in the top-left corner. These both have obvious rhymes, so I needed a clue that revealed FLEW near the bottom-right corner. I got HEIGHT around it, and with taht, I went back to the word "rhymes" that I found earlier to try and complete the spangram. Eventually I got it: COLORRHYMES. Ah, okay: QUEEN = green, HELLO = yellow, HEIGHT = white and FLEW = blue. That made the last two a bit easier. If found PILOT (violent) in the bottom-left corner, and then PLAQUE (black) immediately above it to complete the puzzle. Yesterday's Strands answers Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #405 right here. Today's best Netflix deals Netflix - Standard with ads Netflix - Standard Netflix - Premium See more Gaming News Alan Martin Social Links Navigation Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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