Listed below are the solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #500 as we speak, launched on July sixteenth, 2025, and a few hints that can assist you resolve them.
The New York Instances are identified for the wide selection of video games they publish for readers to finish on the every 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 at the moment in beta. On this recreation, there’s a theme of phrases on a board and you have to discover the theme associated phrases.
After getting discovered a theme associated phrase, it’ll keep crammed in blue and to create these phrases, you’ll need 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 may be additionally a “spangram” which is a phrase on the board that describes the theme of the puzzle for the day. It would contact two reverse sides of the board and could also be two phrases.
After getting discovered the spangram phrase, it’ll keep highlighted in yellow.
An instance of a spangram is FRUIT, and the opposite themed phrases can be PEAR, BANANA and APPLE.
If you’re struggling to seek out any phrases referring to the theme, you’ll be able to attempt to discover different phrases on the board, which won’t keep highlighted, however will aid you to get hints. You will have to seek out three non-theme phrases to get a touch.
Strands 500 Hints At present (July sixteenth, 2025)
Today’s theme or trace for the puzzle is, “TECH ACCESSORIES” and there are eight theme phrases to be discovered.
Extra hints that can assist you resolve the Strands puzzle launched as we speak is:
- One phrase within the Spangram.
- There are six letters within the Spangram phrase as we speak.
Strands 500 Spangram Reply At present (July sixteenth, 2025)
With each puzzle, there’s a spangram, which helps describe the theme. The spangram for the puzzle launched on July sixteenth is:
TABLET
The phrase begins on the proper and ends on the left facet of the grid.
The precise location of the Spangram phrase might be seen beneath:
Strands 500 Resolution At present (July sixteenth, 2025)
Listed below are the entire different themed phrases for the Stands 500 puzzle:
- SPEAKER
- STAND
- CASE
- FOLIO
- KEYBOARD
- STYLUS
- CHARGER
Tell us within the feedback beneath which phrases you bought caught on.