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 Sunday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New Strand’s Tip and Response to Sunday 18 May (Game #441).
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 #442) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings theme is … to take the bait
New Strands Today (Game #442) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Tour
- SOFA
- Tour
- PEST
- Nights
- SMOKE
New Strands Today (Game #442) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram Breeding
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 15 letters
New Strands Today (Game #442) – Tip No. 4 – Spangram Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: top, 5th column
Last page: bottom, 3rd column
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New Strands Today (Game #442) – The answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #442, are …
- Mackerel
- TROUT
- SALMON
- Snapper
- Halibut
- Spanggram: Somethings Fishy
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
About a quarter of a way through today’s search I thought with myself “There is no way that threads would have a pointed as long as Somethings Fishy is there?”
But oh, how wrong I was and it takes a third of the grid when we could fish for fished words.
I also have a hard time looking at without the apostrophe – as in ‘Something’s Fishy’ – even if it would not work in a word search, but maybe I’m alone with it.
Mackerel was the easiest word to find thanks to CK in its name, while Snapper turned out to be the hardest to drain as there were several variants in the letters.
Apart from that, today’s search was about as easy as shooting fish in a bucket, but in justice it was limited to a tasty and decorative choice – none of these fine sources of omega 3 are likely to find themselves as an ingredient in a stick or burger.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new strings Answer (Sunday 18 May, Game #441)
- RUDDER
- MAST
- Rig
- Cool
- Tiller
- Hull
- RUDDER
- STERN
- Spangram: Sailboat
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.
