Looking for another day?
A new new strands puzzle appear at midnight every day for your time zone – which means some people always play ‘Today’s Games’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you are looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New Strand’s Tip and Response to Saturday August 23 (Games #538).
Strands is New’s latest word play after them like Wordle, Spellbi and connections – and it’s fun. However, it can be difficult, so read on for my threads tips.
Want more word -based fun? Then check out my new connections today and Quordle today pages for tips and answers to these games, and Marc’s Wordle Today page for the original viral Word game.
Spoiler Warning: Information about new threads today is below, so do not read on if you do not want to know the answers.
New Strands Today (Game #539) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s New Strands -Thema is … Connect your ears
New Strands Today (Game #539) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Place
- Boon
- Smog
- Bonus
- LOST
- DRILL
New Strands Today (Game #539) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram Breeding
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 6 letters
New Strands Today (Game #539) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: Right, 5th row
Last page: Left, 5th row
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -threads today (game #539) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #539, is …
- Blasting
- Loud
- Flowering
- Noisy
- Strim
- Boisterous
- Spangram: Hubbub
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
I expected today’s search to be about explosions. Especially as the first word I found was blasting, but fierce and tight describes high people rather than detonations.
Recently I have found the tension pretty quickly and worked me around the board from there, but I found today more difficult and did not get Hubbub until the end.
I managed to get through without taking any tips, but it was far from a straightforward search how violently took me a while to get through. A Sunday stretch.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Saturday August 23rd, Game #538)
- DETECTIVE
- FOREIGN
- LOVE
- Competing
- SPOUSE
- HEIR
- Spangram: It’s a mystery
What is new threads?
Strands is Nyt’s non-new-new-more word games after Wordle and connections. It is now a fully expanded member of Nyt’s Games Stable, which has been running for a year and can be played on the new Games website on desktop or mobile.
I have a full guide on how to play new threads, complete with tips to solve it, so check it out if you struggle to beat it every day.



