Need help with today's NYT strand? Today's theme, “Determination,” may initially steer you in the wrong direction, as it did for myself.

Below, I've compiled some helpful hints and answers to Strand #303 when you need them. We'll start with the hints and then the full answer to Strand #303.

WARNING: There are spoilers for Strands #303.

The official theme for NYT Strands #303 is... “Determination.”

And here's an unofficial hint from me: “No new beginnings.

If you're still in the dark, here are a few useful words that give you valuable hint tokens:

Still struggling? Spangram gives you a hint on conjunctions. Today's word starts with I and ends with R.

ITSOVER.

So what's the answer to today's strand in game #303?

Drumroll please.

... Spangram was ITSOVER.

Strands #303

“Resolutions”

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Hello Strands fans! New Year's Eve puzzle, although the theme of “Resolutions” made me think of the usually overly optimistic wish to improve oneself for the new year, rather than another meaning of closing something.

After struggling to find anything related to diet or exercise, I used the CODA reveal tip to get me on the right track. Connecting these together, I quickly found the spelling CONCUSION diagonally down from the top left and FINALE to the right of it.

EPILOGUE appropriately concluded the top half. Here I found ENDING diagonally along the middle. That left a perfect gap for the ITSOVER spangram and a CONCLUSION in the lower left to complete the puzzle.

Happy New Year to all Strands fans, see you in 2025.

Are you reading this later than this? The full article on Strands' solution to yesterday's game 302 can be found here.