Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Generation Jam,” can be quite challenging if you weren't born in a certain era.

Below are some tips to help you with Strands #251, and some answers when you need them. We will start with a few tips and then connect them to the complete answer to Strands #251.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #251.

The official theme for NYT Strands #251 is... “Generation Jam.”

And here's an unofficial tip from me: “Sounds of the Decade”

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

Still having trouble? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today it starts with 'n' and ends with 's'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

NINETIESBANDS.

Now, what's the answer to the strand in today's game #251?

Drumroll please.

... Spangram was NINETIESBANDS.

Strands #251

“Generation jam”

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Hello Strands fans, I was a teen in the 90s and this was a dream topic for me!

Or it would have been, had I known right away what the subject was. But it was a little too vague for me and I had to use clues to reveal the BLUR.

I was a bit surprised by this. This is because I did not think BLUR was as big in the US as it is in my country. Nonetheless, I was naming bands from the 90s, finding NIRVANA just below BLUR and OASIS in the opposite corner.

Now I'm ready to tackle the spangram: NINETIESBANDS spelled top to bottom on the board; NINETIESBANDS spelled top to bottom on the board; NINETIESBANDS spelled top to bottom on the board; NINETIESBANDS spelled top to bottom on the board; NINETIESBANDS spelled top to bottom on the board. My attention was drawn to the PAVEMENT next to it.

The last one, I must admit, I had never heard of. Thankfully, all I had to do was decipher the anagram, which I eventually spelled SUBLIME, and I had a nice, nostalgic puzzle.

Are you reading this in a slower time zone? The full article on yesterday's solution to Strand's game #250 can be found here.