Having trouble with today's NYT Strand puzzle? Today's puzzle, "Picking Up the Pieces," is a bit of a confusing topic, but once you figure it out, it fits nicely.

Below are some helpful hints and answers for Strands #106. We will start with the hints and then lead you to the full solution to Strands #106.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #106.

The official theme for NYT Strands #106 is... "Picking Up the Pieces."

And here's an unofficial tip from me: "Play without a screen."

If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that will give you valuable hint tokens:

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with "B" and ends with "S."

Scroll down to see what it is.

BOARDGAMES.

Now, the answer to today's strand is...

drumroll please.

... Spangram was BOARDGAMES.

Strands #106

"Picking up the pieces"

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Hello Strands fans! I solved today's puzzle as soon as I correctly deduced that the "piece" in the subject "pick up the pieces" was a board game piece.

I immediately started looking for RISK and found it in the middle of the board. With the topic confirmed, I immediately started looking for the SPANGRAM and found it spelled BOARDGAMES from the bottom of the board to the top.

The next hit was MONOPOLY, and sure enough, I saw it wrapped around the top left corner; it looked like it might also contain BATTLESHIP, and it was diagonally across the bottom right.

"CRUDE" was next on the list, but I remembered that in the US it is called "CLUE" and found it in the upper right corner.

Only two games remained, neither of which I had ever played. But at least I knew the game SORRY, so I was able to find it between CLUE and BATTLESHIP.

The last one, TROUBLE, was a bit of a challenge because I had never heard of a board game called TROUBLE. However, it didn't take me too long to decipher TROUBOLE.

Are you reading this late in the day? The full answer to yesterday's game 105 on the Strand can be found here.