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Saturday, June 7, 2025, is NYT Strands game #461. Its theme clue is “I am what I am,” and the spangram is BE YOURSELF. The answers reported for this puzzle are HUMAN, SOUL, MORTAL, SOMEONE, and INDIVIDUAL.
Hints for Strands game #461
- Theme clue: “I am what I am.”
- Words to find for in-game hints: SOLID, ALIVE, SOLO, MOLE, LOVES, and SOOT.
- Spangram length: 10 letters.
- Spangram route: It starts at the top of the board in the third column and ends at the bottom in the fourth column.
Answers for Saturday, June 7
The date-specific answer key reported by TechRadar lists these theme words:
- HUMAN
- SOUL
- MORTAL
- SOMEONE
- INDIVIDUAL
Spangram
BE YOURSELF
The guide also includes a line it attributes to Frank Ocean’s Aunt Rosie in a voicemail excerpt associated with the track “Be Yourself”: “Be yourself and know that’s good enough.”
About the date and answer source
This is the June 7, 2025 puzzle, identified as game #461 in TechRadar’s guide, published June 6, 2025. Strands resets at midnight by time zone, so a player in another time zone may see the same daily puzzle under a different calendar date.
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TechRadar is a secondary puzzle guide, and the answer key here was not independently corroborated against an official NYT archive. The guide’s “Easy” rating and “Perfect” score are its author’s assessments, not official NYT ratings.
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Strands is part of the NYT Games collection and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. The cited guide does not establish whether paid access is required.
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