The spangram for NYT Strands #877 on July 28, 2026, is ITSALLTHERE (IT’S ALL THERE). The theme is “Leave nothing out.” The six theme words are COMPLETE, ENTIRE, FULL, TOTAL, UNDIVIDED, and WHOLE.
Three spoiler-free hints are below if you want to work through the grid first.
Hint 1: Today’s theme is a directive about gaps – think of words that describe something with every part present and nothing left out.
Hint 2: All six theme words are common everyday adjectives that mean roughly the same thing, but each has a slightly different register of use.
Hint 3: The spangram is a casual three-word phrase you might hear from someone reassuring you that nothing has been forgotten – three words, no spaces in the grid.
Spangram: ITSALLTHERE
Theme words: COMPLETE, ENTIRE, FULL, TOTAL, UNDIVIDED, WHOLE
Today’s theme is one of Strands’ more satisfying constructions: a directive hiding inside a definition. “Leave nothing out” is both an instruction for how to solve the puzzle – find every word in the grid – and the actual semantic field the answers inhabit. All six theme words describe a state of completeness, of having every part present. The spangram IT’S ALL THERE is the payoff, a casual phrase someone uses when handing you something and wanting you to know nothing is missing.
The six words sit in the same semantic neighborhood, but each carries a distinct weight of use. FULL most naturally modifies a container – a full glass, a full room. ENTIRE and WHOLE tend to modify an abstract group or concept: the entire team, the whole story. COMPLETE typically implies a finished process, something brought to its end state. TOTAL emphasizes aggregate sum and is often intensifying: total silence, total failure. UNDIVIDED is the most specific of the set, emphasizing unity rather than just completion – undivided attention, undivided loyalty – and is probably the last theme word most solvers find today.
Difficulty sits at medium. The theme is accessible enough that solvers who read the title carefully should reach WHOLE and FULL quickly, then triangulate from there. The real Strands challenge in today’s grid is spatial rather than conceptual: tracking six near-synonyms without overlap across the board. The spangram’s casual phrasing – IT’S ALL THERE as three words fused into one grid-spanning string – is the trickiest element for players who expect spangrams to be compound nouns or place names.
Yesterday’s Strands #876 carried the theme “Let the journey begin” with spangram TRAINSTATION and transport-hub words across the grid. Last Thursday’s Strands #873 is also in the archive. NYT Strands resets daily at midnight, and puzzle #878 will be available on July 29, 2026.
