NYT Strands Today: Hints and Answers for January 17, 2025

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 #320 then we can get you sorted. To help you out, we have included the hints, answers, and the Spangram for today’s Strands on January 17, 2025.

Today’s Strands Theme for January 17

Before we jump to the theme, it’s imperative to tell you that NYT Strands is a fairly new NYT Game that involves word search. The theme for today’s Strands on January 17, 2025, is — The time of our lives

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — a difference of attitudes, opinions, and outlooks between people born during various periods of time.

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 term used to denote people who were born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s; starts with the letter “M” and ends with “L”.
• Hint #2: the demographic cohort, generally defined as people born between 1901 and 1927; starts with the letter “G” and ends with “T”.

Strands Spangram Position: Is It Vertical or Horizontal?

The Spangram for today’s Strands doesn’t feature that many twists and turns, and it’s mostly – VERTICAL.

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 1, Row 1
• Last letter: Column 3, Row 8

Do you also solve Wordle every day? Our posts for Wordle hints for January 17 and Connections hints for January 17 include helpful hints and answers to these puzzles.

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands #320 on January 17, 2025, is — GenerationGap

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on January 17, 2025? Find out below:

• ALPHA
• BOOMER
• MILLENNIAL
• ZOOMER
• GREATEST

Today’s Strands was pretty straightforward, as it includes terms coined for individuals born at about the same time. The first couple of theme words (ALPHA and BOOMER), helped crack others, making the Spangram all the easier to guess.

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 #319 from January 16, 2025. In that case, you can find NYT Strands hints for January 16 here.

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