NYT Strands Today: Hints and Answers for January 2, 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 #305 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 2, 2024.

Today’s Strands Theme

The theme for today’s Strands on January 2, 2024, is — Super bowl

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — a kind of broth made from the meat of a domestic fowl with various other ingredients.

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 left half and another from the right 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 vegetable with long light-green stems which can be used as a salad or a cooked vegetable; starts with the letter “C” and ends with “Y”.
• Hint #2: the long orange root of a plant that is eaten as a vegetable; starts with the letter “C” 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, so 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 3, Row 1
• Last letter: Column 3, Row 8

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 #305 on January 2, 2024, is — ChickenSoup

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on January 2, 2024? Find out below:

• STOCK
• PEPPER
• CELERY
• NOODLES
• CARROTS
• ONIONS

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 #304 from January 1, 2025. In that case, you can find yesterday’s NYT Strands answers here.

Today’s Strands was pretty straightforward as it features ingredients you add to a bouillon de poulet, as they call it in French. The first set of theme words (STOCK) and (PEPPER) set the foundation for this theme, making it easy to crack the Spangram in no time.

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.