Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme of “Roll with it” is not that difficult once you have one or two answers on the board.

Below are some helpful hints for Strand #291 and the answer when you need it. Please read on if you need a little help, as we will start with the hints and then lead you to the full answer to Strand #291.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strand #291.

The official theme for NYT Strands #291 is... Roll With It

And here's an unofficial tip from me: “Record Store Genres.”

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 'R' and ends with 'G'.

Scroll down to see what it is.

It's ROCKING.

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

Drumroll, please.

... And the spangram was ROCKING.

Strands #291

“Roll with it”

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Hello Strands fans! Nothing is too much of a burden, especially if, like me, you spend a lot of time in record stores looking for bargains.

I was a bit lucky to get the bottom line PUNK without thinking too much about the theme. But once that was confirmed, it was clear that “Roll with it” was about a musical genre.

Then there was METAL in the upper right, followed by PROGRESSIVE on the other side; GLAM was twisted just below METAL, which proved enough to complete the spangram in reverse from right to left: rocking.

This left only one more word to find, albeit a long one. Its anagram is LEATTNRIEV, which of course can only be rewritten as ALTERNATIVE.

Are you reading this late in the day? The full article on the solution to yesterday's game #290 on the Strand can be found here.