Need help with today's NYT Strands puzzle? The theme of today's puzzle is Oh, oh, oh!

Below are some helpful hints and what-if answers for Strands #157 Start with a few clues to get the full answer to Strands #157

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #157

The official theme for NYT Strands #157 is "O, O, O!"

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "look-alike"

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

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions Today it starts with 'R' and ends with 'E'

Scroll down to see what it is

RHYMETIME

Now, what's the answer to today's Strand game #157?

Drum roll please

Spangram was RHYMETIME

Strand #157

"Oh, oh, oh!"

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Hello, Strand fans! This has been a tough one" Oh,oh,oh!" makes muuuuuuuch sense, but I was kinda lucky to find the DOUGH in the upper right corner right away

I figured out that this was about something that rhymes with "oh" and then got the RHYMETIME spangram from bottom to top, but still had a little trouble with this one

It didn't help that I found WHOA in the lower left corner, but spelled it WOAH at first It took me an embarrassingly long time to try alternative spellings, but even after that I stumbled a bit and had to use a hint The clue showed an anagram of VAOCOAD, which I solved to AVOCADO

There were three left, and they were like pulling teeth in terms of difficulty; MISTLETOE was the only one left on the left side of the board, so it wasn't too hard, but the segment on the right was more likely to have two answers ending in "bow" and "eau," to fit the rhyming outline Despite the fact that it turned out to be very tricky

The former turned out to be rainbow And that left me with a clear path to create a CHATEAU with my remaining letters

Well, I found this really hard, but maybe that's just me! Hopefully tomorrow it will be easier to understand

Are you reading this late in the day? You can read the full article about Strand's solution to yesterday's Round 156 here