Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #661 at this time, launched on December twenty fourth, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you resolve them.
The New York Occasions are recognized for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the each day. They’d additionally revealed the viral phrase sport, Wordle, in 2022, so as to add to their assortment.
A brand new sport has been launched by the paper, known as Strands, which is at present in beta. On this sport, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and you must discover the theme associated phrases.
After you have discovered a theme associated phrase, it’s going to keep stuffed in blue and to create these phrases, you’ll need to pull or kind the letters. The entire 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 should contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After you have discovered the spangram phrase, it’s going to 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 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 enable you to get hints. You will have to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 661 Hints Today (December twenty fourth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “GATHER AROUND” and there are eight theme phrases to be discovered.
Extra hints that can assist you resolve the Strands puzzle launched at this time is:
- 4 phrases within the Spangram at this time.
- There are 4, two, one and three letters within the Spangram phrases at this time.
Strands 661 Spangram Reply Today (December twenty fourth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on December twenty fourth is:
SNUG AS A BUG
The phrase begins on the left and ends within the backside proper nook of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase may be seen beneath:
Strands 661 Resolution Today (12/24/2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 661 puzzle:
- COMFY
- HOMEY
- WARM
- SOFT
- COZY
- PLEASANT
- RELAXING
Tell us within the feedback beneath which phrases you bought caught on.