NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #334 (Friday, January 31 2025)

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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Baby talk" — is pretty self-explanatory, but you may still need a bit of help finding all the answers.

Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #334, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #334, so read on if you need a little help.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #334.

Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints

The official theme for NYT Strands #334 is... "Baby talk".

And here's an unofficial hint from me: "The start of a big vocabulary".

If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens:

  • DITTY
  • DROLE
  • RATTY
  • RAIDS
  • STORES
  • SMARM
  • YAMS

Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with F and ends with S.

Scroll down to find out what it is...

It's FIRSTWORDS.

Today's Strands answers

So, what are today's Strands answers for game #334?

Drumroll, please...

  • MAMA
  • YUCKY
  • BOTTLE
  • MINE
  • BYEBYE
  • MORE
  • KITTY
  • DADA

Strands #334

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...and the spangram was FIRSTWORDS.

Strands #334

“Baby talk”

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Hi Strands fans. Between this and yesterday's game, the NYT puzzle setters seem to have taken a break from subtle themes. Today's - "Baby talk" - is pretty self-explanatory, and it's hard to see what else it could be about.

So I comfortably managed to complete the game without using any clues, first finding MAMA spelt backwards from the middle to the top of the board, and YUCKY next to it. I then spelt out the spangram of FIRSTWORDS from top to bottom (the right way around, this time).

This neatly divided the grid in two, allowing me to complete the left-hand side with BOTTLE and MINE.

There were four answers hidden on the right-hand side and they all fell pretty quickly, starting with BYEBYE at the bottom. I then got MORE above it, and just had to unpick DADA and KITTY in the top right to complete the puzzle.

Yesterday's Strands answers

Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #333 right here.

Alan Martin

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