Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #474 as we speak, launched on June twentieth, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you remedy them.
The New York Occasions are identified for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the day by day. They’d 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, referred to as Strands, which is presently in beta. On this recreation, 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 would keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you have to to tug 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 can contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After getting discovered the spangram phrase, it would 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 seek out any phrases referring to the theme, you may attempt to discover different phrases on the board, which is not going to keep highlighted, however will aid you to get hints. You will have to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 474 Hints Right now (June twentieth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “JUST A DUSTING” and there are eight theme phrases to be discovered.

Extra hints that can assist you remedy the Strands puzzle launched as we speak is:
- One phrase within the Spangram.
- The Sprangram has seven letters in each phrases.
- Wonderful, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a stable substance.
Strands 474 Spangram Reply Right now (June twentieth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on June twentieth is:
POWDERS
The phrase begins on the precise and ends on the left facet of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase may be seen beneath:

Strands 474 Answer Right now (June twentieth, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 474 puzzle:
- COCOA
- BABY
- CHILI
- BAKING
- TALCUM
- ITCHING
- BLASTING

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