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 16 August (Games #531).
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 #532) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s New Strands theme is … Think again!
New Strands Today (Game #532) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Tint
- CEREAL
- MANAGE
- Dirt
- Trivia
- TUNA
New Strands Today (Game #532) – Tip No. 3 – Spanframe letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 10 letters
New Strands Today (Game #532) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: bottom, 4th column
Last page: Top, 6. Column
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New Strands Today (Game #532) – The answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #532, is …
- Creativity
- Emotions
- Spontaneity
- INTUITION
- Spangram: Right brain
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
The day after giving us the theme to the left brain with a tip that runs down the left of the puzzle, today string it followed up with the right brain.
Activities associated with this side of our brains are the ones involving visual-space treatment and imagination, while the left involves logical, analytical and sequential treatments (I engaged the middle of my brain-as I like to call ‘Google’ to give you these facts).
Despite the difficult words – spontaneity always trip me up – this was a relatively easy puzzle to perform, but a valuable exercise in the same way, as it is always nice to be reminded of our brains and the diversity they contain.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Saturday 16th August, Game #531)
- LOGIC
- ANALYSIS
- LANGUAGE
- Number
- ORDER
- CAUSE
- Spanggram: Left brain
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.
