NYT Strands Today: Hints and Answers for December 12, 2024

If you’re finding it hard to spot words in NYT’s latest word game, then check out these Strands hints today. Those bored with the New York Times’ sensational games like Wordle and Connections are turning their attention to Strands for a challenging new experience. If you’re one of them; struggling with Strands #284 then we can get you sorted. To help you out, we have included the hints, answers, and the Spangram for today’s Strands on December 12, 2024.

Today’s Strands Theme

The theme for today’s Strands on December 12, 2024, is — Shape and bake

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — a kitchen tool with sharp edges for cutting biscuit dough into different shapes.

Once you’ve decrypted the Spangram, finding the theme words for today’s Strands is quite easy. If you still can’t figure it out, we’ve included hints for a couple of theme words below, including one from the top half and another from the bottom half of the board.

Spoiler Warning:

Scroll past this point AT YOUR OWN RISK. Hints and answers for today’s Strands below.

To make it easy for you to solve this puzzle on your own without having to scroll down to view the answers, here are some of the Strands hints that may help you:

• Hint #1: a precious stone that is also the hardest naturally occurring substance on earth; starts with the letter “D” and ends with “D”.
• Hint #2: the seed-bearing part of a plant that consists of coloured petals and sepals; starts with the letter “F” and ends with “R”.

Strands Spangram Position: Is It Vertical or Horizontal?

While not a bizarre shape it iself, the Spangram for today’s Strands is – POLYGONAL.

We will help you to decipher today’s answer by providing the locations of the first and last letters of today’s Spangram below:

• First letter: Column 2, Row 6
• Last letter: Column 3, Row 6

Do you also solve Wordle every day? Our posts for today’s Wordle and today’s Connections include helpful hints and answers to these puzzles.

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands #284 on December 12, 2024, is — CookieCutter

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on December 12, 2024? Find out below:

• BELL
• STAR
• DIAMOND
• FLOWER
• ANGEL
• BUNNY
• HEART

Yesterday’s Strands Answers

Lost all perspective of time, did you? Is this not the Strands game you want to solve? Perhaps you are looking for hints and answers to Strands game #283 from December 11, 2024. In that case, you can find yesterday’s NYT Strands answers here.

Although Today’s Strands wasn’t that hard to figure out, its shape did throw me off until the very end. The first two theme words (BELL and STAR) set up the premise for the theme and as soon as I could spot COOKIE, the Spangram became all the more apparent.

How did today’s Strands game pan out for you? Please share your thoughts in the comments below. See you tomorrow for more fun.