Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #664 at present, launched on December twenty seventh, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you clear up them.
The New York Instances are identified for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the each day. They’d 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, known as Strands, which is at present in beta. On this recreation, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and you have to discover the theme associated phrases.
After getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it is going to keep stuffed in blue and to create these phrases, you will want to pull or kind 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 may be additionally a “spangram” which is a phrase on the board that describes the theme of the puzzle for the day. It’ll contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After getting discovered the spangram phrase, it is going to keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases could be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.

In case you are struggling to seek out any phrases referring to the theme, you’ll be able to try to discover different phrases on the board, which won’t keep highlighted, however will make it easier to to get hints. You’ll need to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 664 Hints Today (December twenty seventh, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “IF YOU ASK ME…” and there are six theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you clear up the Strands puzzle launched at present is:
- Three phrases within the Spangram at present.
- There are two, three and 5 letters within the Spangram phrases at present.
Strands 664 Spangram Reply Today (December twenty seventh, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on December twenty seventh is:
MY TWO CENTS
The phrase begins on the prime and ends on the backside of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase may be seen beneath:

Strands 664 Answer Today (12/27/2025)
Listed below are all the different themed phrases for the Stands 664 puzzle:
- OPINION
- PERSPECTIVE
- TAKE
- VIEWPOINT
- OUTLOOK

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