Listed here are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #463 as we speak, launched on June ninth, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you resolve 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 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’s good to discover the theme associated phrases.
After getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it is going to keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you have to to pull 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 is going to contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After getting discovered the spangram phrase, it is going to 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’ll be able to try to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will aid you to get hints. You will want to search out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 463 Hints At present (June ninth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “WHAT YOU SEE ISN’T WHAT YOU GET” and there are seven theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you resolve the Strands puzzle launched as we speak is:
- Two phrases within the Spangram.
- The Sprangram has 5 letters in each phrases.
- Guarded
Strands 463 Spangram Reply At present (June ninth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on June ninth is:
FALSE FRONT
The phrase begins within the second row, hits the highest and ends on the backside of the grid within the form of a query mark.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase will be seen beneath:

Strands 463 Resolution At present (June ninth, 2025)
Listed here are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 463 puzzle:
- MASK
- CLOAK
- CAMOUFLAGE
- DISGUISE
- FACADE
- COVER

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