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NYT Strands game #384, for Saturday, March 22, 2025, has the theme “A good roast.” Need a nudge? Start with the hints below; the full solution is clearly marked so you can stop before the spoilers.
Hints for Strands #384
Work through these from least revealing to most revealing. The puzzle-specific guide was published by TechRadar on March 21, 2025, ahead of the game date.
- Theme: “A good roast.”
- Think about: Reactions to something funny.
- Words to unlock in-game hints: PLUG, GLUE, LINE, KICK, CROW, KING. These help trigger Strands hints; they are not theme answers.
- Spangram placement: It has 10 letters, ignoring the space, and runs from the bottom edge in the third column to the top edge in the third column.
How Strands works
Strands is a daily word-search game played on a six-by-eight grid. Theme words can bend in any direction, and finding three unrelated words unlocks an in-game hint that highlights a theme word. The spangram describes the puzzle’s theme and spans two opposite edges of the grid. These mechanics are summarized in Wikipedia’s Strands overview.
Spoiler: the full answer to Strands #384
Stop here if you want to solve the grid yourself. The spangram and all seven theme answers are below.
Spangram: CRACKING UP
Theme answers: CHUCKLE, HOWL, SHRIEK, GIGGLE, CACKLE, ROAR, LAUGH.
Quick Recap
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