Saturday, March 28, 2026

NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, March 29 (game #756)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, March 28 (game #755).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #756) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… A bit peckish

NYT Strands today (game #756) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

  • FOURTEEN
  • FILET
  • TRACE
  • BEER
  • BATE
  • TRIM

NYT Strands today (game #756) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 11 letters

NYT Strands today (game #756) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 1st column

Last side: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #756) - the answers

NYT Strands answers for game 756 on a blue background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #756, are…

  • BUGS
  • SUET
  • FRUIT
  • MILLET
  • BERRIES
  • NECTAR
  • SEEDS
  • SPANGRAM: FORTHEBIRDS
  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

As somebody who is always “a bit peckish”, this search could have been for everything from chips to fruit salad to Turkish banquet.

Instead, we were hunting for foodstuffs connected to our feathered friends. Discovering the spangram early in the game helped ease my initial confusion after finding BUGS and SUET first — both items that are not on my snack menu.

I managed to navigate the board fairly easily, struggling only over the combination of NECTAR and SEEDS – and I was also thrilled to spy a rare eight-letter non-game word.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Saturday, March 28, game #755)

  • EMAIL
  • TEXT
  • MISSIVE
  • LETTER
  • MEMO
  • POSTCARD
  • SPANGRAM: CORRESPONDENCE

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

Friday, March 27, 2026

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Google's AI-powered conversational Search Live tool is going global — with real-time answers now available in more languages

  • Google Search Live is now available globally in 200 countries and 98 languages
  • Search Live uses the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live audio and voice model to enable a “more natural” conversational search
  • Audio responses have links to the information source

Google has rolled out its AI-powered conversational search tool, Search Live, globally to more than 200 countries and territories, and is available in 98 languages. First launched in the US in September 2025, Search Live lets you point your phone or tablet’s camera at something and ask the AI tool about it out loud, such as what model washing machine you have and how to use it.

The AI then responds with an audio answer that’s also, handily, captioned, and will continue listening for any clarifications and follow-up questions to emulate a natural conversation.

You can access Search Live through the Google app on Android or iOS by tapping the “Live” button under the search bar, placed between the AI Mode and Nano Banana buttons. It can also be accessed through Google Lens and the dedicated Gemini app.

Google has said the expansion has been made possible thanks to the launch of a new audio and voice model called Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, which it says is “inherently multilingual”. The company also claims the model also responds to queries faster, and aims to deliver “more natural and intuitive conversations”.

Analysis: Good but not perfect

Search Live uses query fan-out — an information retrieval technique that broadens the search by looking at related answers beyond a specific question — to provide a more comprehensive response and double down on the conversational aspect.

We tried Search Live in June last year, and noted how the tool continues to work in the background to use query fan-out, and my colleague Eric Hal Schwartz said the answers “didn’t feel boxed into a single form of response, even on relatively straightforward queries”.

I took it for a spin myself, testing it on my bike. While Search Live was good at identifying the specific model, year of release and why it had a specific paint job, it failed to recognize that I had swapped out the stock wheelset for a third-party set and thought that it still had the integrated handlebars that it originally came with. It also failed to correctly identify the accessories on the bike, like my rear light, water bottle and the bottle cages.

Screenshots of Google Search Live in action

(Image credit: Future | Nico Arboleda)

In a similar test, it failed to identify the Nothing Phone 4a Pro that was on my desk, calling it the Nothing Phone 2a instead. I compared the results with the same question on Gemini Live, and I received identical answers.

It’s understandable why some of the results were incorrect as the AI assistant was drawing from existing sources online and new products won’t necessarily have information for the model to learn from but, as it stands, it can handle a fair few general queries.

According to Google, over 1.5 billion people were using Google Lens to identify objects around them as of June 2025 and there are about 750 million Gemini Live users, so it would be interesting to see what the uptake of Search Live will be globally and if this becomes the default way to search for information online.