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 -Wire suggests and answers to Sunday 7th September (Game #553).
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 #554) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings theme is … one for trekkies
New Strands Today (Game #554) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Voters
- Crisp
- Dips
- RAGE
- Ladder
- Sheep
New Strands Today (Game #554) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram Letters
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 9 letters
New Strands Today (Game #554) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: left, 4th row
Last page: Right, 5th row
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -threads today (game #554) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #554, is …
- Enterprise
- Titan
- Voyager
- DISCOVERY
- Indecent
- Spanggram: Starships
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
Anyone who has spent a life time watching Star Trek Across its several generations it would have been fist pumping and to mouth the words “finally” when they played today’s game.
For the rest of us, it was a coincidence of finding the names of things that sounded like they could possibly be spaceships from the show – Enterprise and Voyager were the only ones I knew with certainty. That said, I didn’t need any tip, so I think they went on us easily.
And top marks to produce the tension in the form of Starfleet Insignia. Live long and bloom, friends.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Sunday 7th September, Game #553)
- THIRTEEN
- PARTY
- RABBI
- Lchaim
- Torah
- SYNAGOGUE
- Spanggram: Barmitzvah
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.



