New York Times Strands Hints and Answers for December 8, 2024

Strands has another difficult puzzle with some challenging words inside of it. If you are stuck, you aren’t alone; this is one of the more difficult puzzles you will probably come across when playing this puzzle game.

If you are looking for help with this puzzle and not help with the rules of Strands, you can find everything you need to win below. In this article are general clues, spoilers, and even the full answer if you want to see it.

The NYT Games Strands Puzzle #280 December 8, 2024

The Strands puzzle for today has the clue A Timely Theme. There are eight things to find inside it: the Spangram and seven themed words.

New York Times Games Strands Clues

In the three sections below, you can find hints to the theme for this nearly impossible puzzle game. None of them will spoil any of the words in the puzzle, and there is only one little hint per expandable section below.

General Hint 1

Hint 1
: What is something timely?

General Hint 2

Hint 2
: Time item pieces.

General Hint 3

Spoilers for Two of the Words in Today’s Strands

Each of the two sections below contains one word from today’s puzzle and a screenshot of where it goes in the puzzle’s letter grid. Open them up using the Read More button below each one.

Spoiler 1

Spoiler 2

The Answer to Today’s New York Times Games Strands

If you just want to see the whole spoiler for this innovative puzzle game, open up the section below. Inside will be all the themed words, the Spangram, and where they all go in the letter grid.

The category for today is
WatchWords
. The words are Crown, Analog, Luxury, Bezel, Digital, Face, and Hands.

Today’s Strands Explained

Don’t get the answer to this internet browser-based game? In the section below, you can see how all the parts of this puzzle work together, like the themed words and the clue, to make some sense of this complex puzzle.

Watch Words
is in reference to how all of the themed words are about pieces of watches that you wear on your wrist.
A Timely Theme
is in reference to how watches are time pieces.

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