Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #444 at present, launched on May twenty first, 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 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 getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it should keep stuffed in blue and to create these phrases, you have to to tug 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’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 getting discovered the spangram phrase, it should keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases can be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.

In case you are struggling to search out any phrases referring to the theme, you may try to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will make it easier to to get hints. You will want to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 444 Hints As we speak (May twenty first, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “THREE’S A CROWD” 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.
- Duo.
Strands 444 Spangram Reply As we speak (May twenty first, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on May twenty first is:
DOUBLE TROUBLE
The phrase begins on the left and ends within the high proper nook of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase may be seen under:

Strands 444 Resolution As we speak (May twenty first, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 444 puzzle:
- COUPLE
- TWOSOME
- PARTNERS
- TWINS
- MATCH
- PAIR

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