NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, December 28 (game #665)

Date:
Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day
for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for
Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, December 27 (game #664) .

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #665) -
hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

Today's NYT Strands theme is Load up on tissues NYT Strands today (game #665) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. FORK SAME WHEY CHAMP PHASE SOCKS NYT Strands today (game #665) - hint #3 - spangram letters How many letters are in today's spangram?

Spangram has 11 letters NYT Strands today (game #665) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 1st column

Last side: bottom, 6th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #665) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #665, are SNIFFLE SNEEZE COUGH WHEEZE HACK DRIP SNORT SPANGRAM: COLDSYMPTOM My rating: Hard My score: Perfect

If you currently have a cold then I would like to offer you my sympathies;
Ive just had one that lasted about three weeks and felt very sorry for
myself.

That said, the main COLDSYMPTOM I experienced was grumpiness, something that didnt make the cut to the list of words we were looking for.

Im classifying this as a tricky game as it involved a few difficult twists, exactly the kind of challenge thats tricky to deal with when youre competing with brain fog and a demonic SNIFFLE. Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Saturday, December 27, game #664) TAKE OPINION PERSPECTIVE VIEWPOINT OUTLOOK SPANGRAM: MYTWOCENTS What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.



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