NYT Strands Today: Hints and Answers for January 22, 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 22, 2025.

Today’s Strands Theme for January 22

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 22, 2025, is — Pixar this

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — movies made using the filmmaking technique where still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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 Pixar movie set in a suburban fantasy world, following two elf brothers named Ian and Barley Lightfoot; starts with the letter “O” and ends with “D”.
• Hint #2: a movie from Pixar Animation Studios that follows the interaction between characters Ember Lumen and Wade Ripple; starts with the letter “E” and ends with “L”.

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 – HORIZONTAL.

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 3
• Last letter: Column 6, Row 4

Do you also solve Wordle and Connections every day? Our posts for Wordle hints for Jan 22 and Connections hints for Jan 22 include helpful hints and answers to these puzzles.

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands #325 on January 22, 2025, is — Animation

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on January 22, 2025? Find out below:

• CARS
• RATATOUILLE
• BRAVE
• SOUL
• ELEMENTAL
• ONWARD

Today’s Strands was pretty easy, as it features names of various movies made by Pixar Animation Studios. As soon as I saw today’s theme, I could easily spot first couple of theme words, CARS and RATATOUILLE, which eventually helped me crack others and moved on to the Spangram.

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 #324 from January 21, 2025. In that case, you can find NYT Strands hints for January 21 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.