Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #668 at the moment, launched on December thirty first, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you remedy them.
The New York Occasions are identified for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the day by day. That they had 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, referred to as Strands, which is at present 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 can keep stuffed in blue and to create these phrases, you’ll need 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’s going to contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After you have discovered the spangram phrase, it can 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 regarding the theme, you’ll be able to try to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will show you how to to get hints. You’ll need to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 668 Hints Today (December thirty first, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER” and there are seven theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you remedy the Strands puzzle launched at the moment is:
- Three phrases within the Spangram at the moment.
- There are 5, three and 5 letters within the Spangram phrases at the moment.
Strands 668 Spangram Reply Today (December thirty first, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on December thirty first is:
ROUND AND ROUND
The phrase begins close to the center of the grid, hits the left, high, on the precise facet and ends close to the center of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase could be seen beneath:

Strands 668 Resolution Today (12/31/2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 668 puzzle:
- CIRCLE
- ORBIT
- WHIRL
- ROTATE
- SPIN
- PIROUETTE

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