Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #445 as we speak, launched on May twenty second, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you remedy them.
The New York Instances are identified for the big selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the day by 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, referred to as Strands, which is at the moment in beta. On this recreation, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and that you must discover the theme associated phrases.
After getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it’s going to keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you will have 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’ll contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After getting discovered the spangram phrase, it’s going to 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 search out any phrases regarding the theme, you possibly can try to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will aid you to get hints. You’ll need to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 445 Hints Immediately (May twenty second, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS” and there are six theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you remedy the Strands puzzle launched as we speak is:
- Two phrases within the Spangram.
Strands 445 Spangram Reply Immediately (May twenty second, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on May twenty second is:
TAKE CARE
The phrase begins on the high and ends within the backside left nook of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase will be seen beneath:

Strands 445 Answer Immediately (May twenty second, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 445 puzzle:
- STEWARD
- PROTECTOR
- CUSTODIAN
- TRUSTEE
- GUARDIAN

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