Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #446 at this time, launched on May twenty third, 2025, and a few hints that will help you remedy them.
The New York Instances are identified for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the each 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 presently in beta. On this sport, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and you have 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 have to 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 may be 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 can keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases could be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.

If you’re struggling to search out any phrases regarding the theme, you may 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 will have to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 446 Hints In the present day (May twenty third, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “THE MUSICAL FRUIT” and there are six theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that will help you remedy the Strands puzzle launched at this time is:
- Two phrases within the Spangram.
Strands 446 Spangram Reply In the present day (May twenty third, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on May twenty third is:
BEAN SALAD
The phrase begins on the prime and ends on the backside of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase will be seen beneath:

Strands 446 Resolution In the present day (May twenty third, 2025)
Listed below are all the different themed phrases for the Stands 446 puzzle:
- GREEN
- KIDNEY
- BLACK
- FAVA
- PINTO
- NAVY
- CANNELLINI

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