NYT Strands hints, answers for October 10, 2025

Oct 10, 2025 - 07:00
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NYT Strands hints, answers for October 10, 2025
A game being played on a smartphone.

Today's NYT Strands hints are great in autumn.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: I'm a ladle hungry

The words are related to food.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe things eaten from a bowl.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is One Pot.


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NYT Strands word list for October 10

  • Stew

  • Goulash

  • One Pot

  • Gumbo

  • Ragout

  • Jambalaya

  • Chili

  • Tagine

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