NYT Strands Today: Hints and Answers for January 18, 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 sensational games like Wordle and Connections are turning their attention to Strands for a challenging new experience. If you are one of them and struggling with Strands, we can get you sorted. To help you out, we have included the hints, answers, and Spangram for today’s Strands on January 18, 2025.

Today’s Strands Theme for January 18

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 18, 2025, is — O___! My___ !

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — the role designated to the leader of a team in sports or the commander of a ship.

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.

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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 large plant-eating marsupial with strongly developed hindlimbs, found only in Australia and New Guinea; starts with the letter “K” and ends with “O”.
• Hint #2: the superhero named after a piece of clothing, covering the area between the waist and the tops of the legs; starts with the letter “U” and ends with “S”.

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 6
• Last letter: Column 6, Row 5

Do you also solve Wordle and Connections every day? Our posts for Wordle hints for Jan 18 and Connections hints for Jan 18 include helpful hints and answers to these puzzles.

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands #321 on January 18, 2025, is — Captain

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on January 18, 2025? Find out below:

• HOOK
• CRUNCH
• PLANET
• OBVIOUS
• KANGAROO
• UNDERPANTS

Today’s Strands was pretty straightforward, as it includes names of some fictional characters with “Captain” as their prefix. The first couple of theme words, PLANET and OBVIOUS, 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 #320 from January 17, 2025. In that case, you can find NYT Strands hints for January 17 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.