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 -Wire suggests and answers for Friday 18th July (Games #502).
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 #503) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings are … hot enough for you?
New Strands Today (Game #503) – Tip No. 2 – Management Word
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Complacent
- COMMA
- SINGER
- Nuclear
- Related
- TRAIN
New Strands Today (Game #503) – Tip No. 3 – Spanframe letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 13 letters
New Strands Today (Game #503) – Tip No. 4 – Spangram Position
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First Page: Top, 6. Column
Last Page: Bottom, 1. Column
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -threads today (game #503) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #503, are …
- STICKY
- Balmy
- DAMP
- Burning
- Swelling
- Spanggram: Summer weather
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 tip
The first word I got was sticky, so I immediately thought that today’s search was something to do with cooking spicy food.
After hitting a wall and watching dozens of words on non-play-but zero game words I train a tip and the bad one sat on my way.
It’s strange how if we live in a cooler climate, we use ages and want warmer weather, but then when it arrives – as today’s word search shows – we realize it is unexplained.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Friday 18th July, Game #502)
- ESCAPE
- Levitate
- Times
- DISAPPEAR
- Transform
- Spangram: Its magic
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.
