NYTs Strands Hints, Tips, and Answers for Today, April 4, 2025

Strands is back again with a massive jumble of seemingly-random letters that contain a bunch of secret, themed words. In this amped-up word search, you will need to figure out the theme and all the answers from just one little clue and the letter grid itself.

If you are stuck on this innovative puzzle game and not looking to use in-game hints for any reason, you can find all the help you’ll need to win in this article. Each section below contains help like theme clues, spoilers, an explanation of the puzzle, and even the full answer.

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How to Play the New York Times Games Strands

Strands is a short daily word game that pits you against a grid of seemingly random letters that contains a whole bunch of related words.

The NYT Games Strands Step On It #397 April 4, 2025

The Strands puzzle for today has the clue Step On It! It has six things to find: the Spangram and five themed words.

NYT Strands Spangram Tips and Theme Hints

If you want a hint for this puzzle game that doesn’t spoil any of the answers, you can find three of them below. Each of these three sections contains a little clue about the theme.

General Spangram Hint 1

Hint 1: What is something you step on every day?

General Spangram Hint 2

Hint 2: Part of the floor you walk on.

General Spangram Hint 3

Hint 3: Types of stuff you put on the floor.

Spoilers for Today’s New York Times Strands

If you want to see a spoiler but are not interested in saving up non-themed words to get an in-game one, you can find two spoilers below. Each of these expandable sections contains one answer along with where it belongs in the puzzle’s grid.

Spoiler 1

Spoiler 2

The Answer to the NYT Step On It Strands

If you would like to see the complete answer to this mind-boggling puzzle game, you can find it in the expandable section below. Take a peek inside to see all the answers and where each of those words belongs in the puzzle grid.

The category for today is Flooring. The words are Hardwood, Linoleum, Terrazzo, Concrete, and Laminate.

Today’s Strands Explained

Don’t get this browser-based puzzle game today? In the section below, you can see how the clue, the theme, and all the words are related. Just peek inside to see a breakdown of what everything has in common.

The clue for today’s puzzle is Step On It because Flooring is something that you cover a floor with to walk on. All the themed words are different types of flooring you can choose when building a home.

Want to play? Check out the New York Times Games Strands website, available on almost any device with a browser.

Released

March 4, 2024

Developer(s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)

The New York Times Company