Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #454 at present, launched on May thirty first, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you resolve them.
The New York Instances are recognized 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 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 present in beta. On this recreation, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and it is advisable to discover the theme associated phrases.
Upon getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it’ll keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you will have to tug or kind 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’ll contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
Upon getting discovered the spangram phrase, it’ll 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 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 make it easier to to get hints. You will have to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 454 Hints In the present day (May thirty first, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “NEXT TO THE BOBBY PINS” and there are six theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you resolve the Strands puzzle launched at present is:
- Two phrases within the Spangram.
- The Sprangram has 4 letters within the first phrase and eleven within the second.
Strands 454 Spangram Reply In the present day (May thirty first, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on May thirty first is:
HAIR ACCESSORIES
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 454 Resolution In the present day (May thirty first, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 454 puzzle:
- CLIP
- BARRETTE
- CLAW
- SCRUNCHIE
- HEADBAND

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