Skip to main content Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Search Tom's Guide View Profile Best Picks Entertainment Technology Magazines Why subscribe? The best tech tutorials and in-depth reviews Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From$12.99View Amazon Spring Sale MacBook Air M4 Nintendo Switch 2 Best Mattress Wordle Today NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #388 (Wednesday, March 26 2025) Alan Martin 25 March 2025 Need help with Strands #388? 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 — "In the circle of life" — is pretty obvious, if you're of a certain age. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #388, 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 #388, so read on if you need a little help. Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #388. You may like NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #338 (Tuesday, February 4 2025) NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #382 (Thursday, March 20 2025) Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints The official theme for NYT Strands #388 is... "In the circle of life". And here's an unofficial hint from me: "Simba and friends". 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 with L and ends with G. Sign up to get the BEST of Tom's Guide direct to your inbox. 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Today's Strands answers So, what are today's Strands answers for game #388? Drumroll, please... (Image credit: Alan Martin) ...and the spangram was LIONKING. Strands #388 “In the circle of life” Hi Strands fans. A nice and easy one if you were a child of the 90s like me. "In the circle of life" can only refer to Disney's The Lion King - and that meant I found the spangram of LIONKING right away. After briefly looking for character names, I got WARTHOG in the top-left corner and realized this was actually about species. ZEBRA was in the bottom-left corner, followed by MEERKAT in the bottom right. HORNBILL - as in "Kings don't need advice from little hornbills for a start" - was above it. I had two gaps to fill. The one in the bottom half was HYENA, and the top one was, of course, ELEPHANT. Yesterday's Strands answers Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #387 right here. 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