Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #563 as we speak, launched on September seventeenth, 2025, and a few hints that will help you remedy them.
The New York Occasions are identified for the big selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the each day. That they had additionally revealed the viral phrase recreation, Wordle, in 2022, so as to add to their assortment.
A brand new recreation has been launched by the paper, referred to as Strands, which is at present in beta. On this recreation, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and it’s worthwhile to discover the theme associated phrases.
Upon getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it’ll keep stuffed in blue and to create these phrases, you’ll need to tug or sort the letters. All the letters on the board are used to make up phrases for the theme and the letters don’t overlap into different phrases.

There’s additionally a “spangram” which is a phrase on the board that describes the theme of the puzzle for the day. It would contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
Upon getting discovered the spangram phrase, it’ll keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases can be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.

If you’re struggling to seek out any phrases referring to the theme, you may try to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will enable you to get hints. You have to to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 563 Hints Today (September seventeenth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “WE BEG TO DIFFER” and there are seven theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that will help you remedy the Strands puzzle launched as we speak is:
- Two phrases within the Spangram.
- There are 9 and 7 letters within the Spangram phrases as we speak.
Strands 563 Spangram Reply Today (September seventeenth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on September seventeenth is:
OPPOSITES ATTRACT
The phrase begins on the backside hits the highest and ends on the proper aspect of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase may be seen under:

Strands 563 Answer Today (September seventeenth, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 563 puzzle:
- RIGID
- FLEXIBLE
- BOLD
- QUIET
- TIMID
- NOISY

Tell us within the feedback under which phrases you bought caught on.
