Need Support for Today's NYT Strand? Today's theme, “Extremely online,” has many meanings.

Below are some helpful hints and what-if answers to Strand #249. Please read on if you have any trouble, as we will start with the hints and then get to the full answer to Strand #249.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #249.

The official theme for NYT Strands #249 is... “Extremely Online.”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “Internet Terms.”

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 conjunctive words. Today it starts with 'S' and ends with 'A'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

SOCIALMEDIA.

Now, what's the answer to today's strand?

Drumroll, please.

... Spangram was SOCIALMEDIA.

Strands #249

“Extremely online”

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Hello Strands fans! Today, assuming you spend a reasonable amount of time on the internet, I'll give you something simple and nice.

SOCIALMEDIA was the first thing I thought of from the “Extremely online” theme, and sure enough, I found it quickly, stretching from the top of the board to the bottom and back to the middle.

It neatly codes two words: “TWEET” and “REPORT” in the left-hand corner. In the lower right corner, “POST” was also almost fixed, and it was easy to find “LIKE” to its left; COMMENT snaked just above them both.

What remained were two words, both in the upper right of the grid. When I found SHARE on the left, the final answer was obvious: connect FOLLOW, and the puzzle was over rather quickly.

Reading later than this? The full text of Strand's solution to yesterday's game #248 can be found here.