Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #357 right now, launched on February 23rd, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you remedy them.
The New York Occasions are identified for the big selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the every day. They’d additionally printed 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 you must discover the theme associated phrases.
After getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it’ll keep stuffed in blue and to create these phrases, you have to to pull or sort 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’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 getting discovered the spangram phrase, it’ll 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 seek out any phrases regarding the theme, you may attempt to discover different phrases on the board, which won’t keep highlighted, however will assist you to to get hints. You’ll need to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 357 Hints Right now (February 23rd, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “OH, THIS OLD THING?” and there are seven theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you remedy the Strands puzzle launched right now is:
- One phrase for the Spangram right now.
- Valued gadgets.
Strands 357 Spangram Reply Right now (February 23rd, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on February 23rd is:
COLLECTIBLES
The phrase begins on the backside and ends on the prime of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase could be seen beneath:

Strands 357 Resolution Right now (February 23rd, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 357 puzzle:
- PLUSHIE
- COMIC
- COIN
- VINYL
- STAMP
- BOBBLEHEAD

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