Need help with today's NYT Strands? Today's puzzle theme is the enigmatic "That's my jam!"- but once you know what it means, the answer is easy to find

Below are the clues and answers for Strand #117 We will start with the clues and then lead you to the complete answer for Strand #117

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #117

The official theme for NYT Strands #117 is "That's my jam!"

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Mixtape

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

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions Today it starts with "m" and ends with "s"

Scroll down to see what it is

MUSICGENRES

Now, what is the answer to today's Strand game #117?

drumroll please

Spangram was MUSICGENRES

Strands #117

"That's my jam!"

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Hey Strands fans Unlike some of the recent puzzles, today's Strands was a breeze to solve; the phrase "That's my jam!" immediately made me think of music, but I was convinced when I saw the double 'Z' on the right side, which is part of JAZZ

From there the variety of music went on and on: the top half of the board had BLUES, SALSA, and SOUL, the bottom left had COUNTRY, DISCO was just to the right of that, and the bottom right had SOUL, with the music of the day, "Jazz" was on the right

I had enough information to get a spangram long ago, but sometimes I get carried away with the actual solution, so I connected FOLK to finish the bottom half of the board Now I had the last six letters of the spangram: from left to right I typed MUSICGENRES

Typed MUSICGENRES from left to right, spelling ROCK backwards from the left side, completing the puzzle in perhaps the fastest time ever

Are you reading this in a slower time zone? The full text of Strand's solution to yesterday's game #116 can be found here