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 Friday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New Strand’s Tip and Response to Friday, August 29 (Game #544).
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 #545) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings theme is … no small matter
New Strands Today (Game #545) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- LOVE
- HOUSE
- PAGE
- Struck
- GIVE
- HEDGE
New Strands Today (Game #545) – Tip No. 3 – Spanframe letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 7 letters
New Strands Today (Game #545) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: Left, 5th row
Last page: Right, 6th row
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -threads today (game #545) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #545, is …
- Fight
- ENORMOUS
- MIGHTY
- Gigantic
- MASSIVE
- Colossal
- Spangram: Big Deal
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I often start my threads in the upper left corner, and it gave me a real headstart today with the light findings of huge and huge, which left me no doubt what I was looking for.
In fact, this was one of these games where it was a harder task to find words on non-games afterwards than to find the answers.
Today’s game made me think of music quite a bit, with Mighty Meming me about the mighty Bosstones, massively bringing massive attacks in mind, and gigantic made me humly my favorite Pixies-song co-written by original bassist Kim Deal.
Yesterday’s new strings response (Friday, August 29, Game #544)
- Sprout
- Bow
- Mesa
- Butte
- Charging
- PILLAR
- Spanggram: Rock formation
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.



