Nyt Strands Today Hints And Answers For January 12 2025

Today’s Strands Theme for January 12

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 12, 2025, is — Wait what?

NYT Strands Hint for Today

The hint for today’s Spangram for Strands — an exclamatory response when something is shocking and difficult to understand or imagine.
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.
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: made up of two words that mean “the action of hitting something or being hit” and “shocked / horrified”; starts with the letter “F” and ends with “T”. Hint #2: combination of two words that mean “a lump, blob, or chunk of something” and “a sharp slap with the palm of the hand”; starts with the letter “G” and ends with “K”.

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 4, Row 1 Last letter: Column 2, Row 7

Do you also solve Wordle every day? Our posts for Wordle hints for January 12 and Connections hints for January 12 include helpful hints and answers to these puzzles.

Today’s Strands Spangram Answer

The Spangram answer for today’s Strands #315 on January 12, 2025, is — MindBlown

Today’s Strands Answers: Words List

So, what are the answers for NYT Strands on January 12, 2025? Find out below:

STUN SURPRISE ASTONISH GOBSMACK FLABBERGAST

Today’s Strands was pretty straightforward. It features words that you’d use to tell when you’re shocked about something. The first couple of theme words (STUN and SURPRISE), helped crack others, making the Spangram all the more easy to guess.

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 #314 from January 11, 2025. In that case, you can find NYT Strands hints for January 11 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.