Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #662 at present, launched on December twenty fifth, 2025, and a few hints that will help you resolve 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 printed 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 presently in beta. On this sport, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and it is advisable to discover the theme associated phrases.
After you have discovered a theme associated phrase, it’ll keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you will want to pull or sort 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’ll contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After you have discovered the spangram phrase, it’ll 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 possibly can attempt to discover different phrases on the board, which won’t keep highlighted, however will allow you to to get hints. You will have to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 662 Hints Today (December twenty fifth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “CAROLER’S COUNT” and there are seven theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that will help you resolve the Strands puzzle launched at present is:
- Two phrases within the Spangram at present.
- There are 9 and 4 letters within the Spangram phrases at present.
Strands 662 Spangram Reply Today (December twenty fifth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on December twenty fifth is:
CHRISTMAS DAYS
The phrase begins on the left and ends within the prime proper nook of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase may be seen under:

Strands 662 Resolution Today (12/25/2025)
Listed below are all the different themed phrases for the Stands 662 puzzle:
- DRUMMERS
- PIPERS
- MAIDS
- LADIES
- SWANS
- LORDS

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