Skip to main content Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Search Tom's Guide View Profile Newsletters Best Picks Entertainment Nintendo Switch 2 Tariff tracker Best Mattress Wordle Today NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #412 (Saturday, April 19 2025) Alan Martin 18 April 2025 Need help with Strands #412? Here are some hints and the answers When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Tom’s Guide/NY Times/Shutterstock) Today's hints Today's answers Yesterday's answers Strands today: Quick menu 1. Today's hints 2. Today's answer 3. Yesterday's answer Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "___ a ___" — is really quite hard to decode at first, but will become clear with a few answers on the board. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #412, 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 #412, so read on if you need a little help. Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #412. You may like NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #399 (Sunday, April 6 2025) NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #377 (Saturday, March 15 2025) Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints The official theme for NYT Strands #412 is... "___ a ___". And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Possessive expressions". If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens: Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts and ends with T. Sign up to get the BEST of Tom's Guide direct to your inbox. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. 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Strands #412 “___ a ___” Hi Strands fans. This was pretty tricky. At first, I thought it might be pairs of words separated by 'A' (like "whack" and "mole"), but after failing to come up with any combinations, I ended up using two clues that revealed HIKE and HINT. With those on the board, it was clear that this was related to phrases starting "take a", and I duly connected TAKETHAT as the spangram to split the board in two. Annoyingly, I had tried to connect "take" earlier as part of my disproven theory, but that's the way the game goes sometimes. Now it was just a case of finding other possible endings for the phrase "take a". First, I found NUMBER in the bottom right, followed by CHANCE above it. Above that, was BREATHER (again, annoying as I'd found "breath" before) to complete the right-hand side of the board. That left two answers to dig out on the opposite side. GANDER was in the bottom-left corner, which meant only SELFIE remained at the top to complete a rather tricky 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 #411 right here. Today's best Netflix deals Netflix - Standard with ads Netflix - Standard Netflix - Premium See more Gaming News Alan Martin Social Links Navigation Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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