Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #627 as we speak, launched on November twentieth, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you resolve them.
The New York Occasions are recognized for the big selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the day by 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 the moment in beta. On this recreation, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and it’s good to discover the theme associated phrases.
After getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it’s going to keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you will have 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’s going to contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After getting discovered the spangram phrase, it’s going to keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases could be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.

If you’re struggling to search out any phrases regarding the theme, you possibly can attempt to discover different phrases on the board, which won’t keep highlighted, however will assist you to get hints. You’ll need to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 627 Hints Today (November twentieth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “BUSYBODY BUZZ” and there are six theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you resolve the Strands puzzle launched as we speak is:
- Three phrases within the Spangram as we speak.
- There are six, three and 4 letters within the Spangram phrases as we speak.
Strands 627 Spangram Reply Today (November twentieth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on November twentieth is:
SPREAD THE WORD
The phrase begins on the proper aspect, hits the left and ends again on the proper aspect of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase might be seen beneath:

Strands 627 Answer Today (11/20/2025)
Listed below are all the different themed phrases for the Stands 626 puzzle:
- RUMOR
- GOSSIP
- REPORT
- HEARSAY
- SCUTTLEBUTTE

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