NYT Strands Today: Hints and Answers for January 31, 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 31, 2025.

Today’s Strands Theme for January 31

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 31, 2025, is — Baby talk

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — a baby’s first expression of self, when they begin to produce sounds that adults recognize in their language.

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.

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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: an adjective that’s used to describe something repugnant and distasteful; starts with the letter “Y” and ends with “Y”.
• Hint #2: an informal way of saying farewell, often used by children; starts with the letter “B” and ends with “E”.

Strands Spangram Position: Is It Vertical or Horizontal?

While Spangram for today’s Strands does feature some twists and turns, 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 4, Row 1
• Last letter: Column 5, Row 8

Do you also solve Wordle and Connections every day? Our posts for Wordle hints for Jan 31 and Connections hints for Jan 31 include helpful hints and answers to these puzzles.

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands #334 on January 31, 2025, is — FirstWords

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on January 31, 2025? Find out below:

• DADA
• KITTY
• MAMA
• YUCKY
• MINE
• MORE
• BOTTLE
• BYEBYE

Today’s Strands was pretty easy, as it features intentional words or sounds that babies make when they start talking. As soon as I saw today’s theme, I could easily spot the first couple of theme words, DADA and MAMA, which eventually helped me crack the Spangram first and then solve the remaining theme words.

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 #333 from January 30, 2025. In that case, you can find NYT Strands hints for January 30 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.