Subj : NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, October 25 (game #601 To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Fri Oct 24 2025 15:15:06 NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, October 25 (game #601) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Description: Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 24 (game #600) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Strands today (game #601) - hint #1 - today's theme What is the theme of today's NYT Strands? Today's NYT Strands theme is Quite a transformation! NYT Strands today (game #601) - hint #2 - clue words Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system. SKIN SPIRE WALK HEEL SCAN HANG NYT Strands today (game #601) - hint #3 - spangram letters How many letters are in today's spangram? Spangram has 13 letters NYT Strands today (game #601) - hint #4 - spangram position What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches? First side: right, 2nd row Last side: left, 6th row Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Strands today (game #601) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Strands, game #601, are WEREWOLF VAMPIRE SKINWALKER CHANGELING SPANGRAM: SHAPESHIFTERS My rating: Hard My score: Perfect There were only five words to find today but it was far from easy. I found my first three mythical creatures while looking for non-game words in order to grab a hint. In the case of SKINWALKER, that came after seeing skin then walker separately. It was more or less the same with SHAPESHIFTERS, which appeared from nowhere and transformed itself into a spangram snake. Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, October 24, game #600) STONE BRONZE SPACE INFORMATION IRON INDUSTRIAL SPANGRAM: HISTORY What is NYT Strands? Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. I've got a full guide to h ow to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hi nts-25-october-2025 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .