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 -Wire suggests and answers for Saturday August 2nd (Game #517).
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 #518) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new string theme is … “sorry, didn’t catch it”
New Strands Today (Game #518) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Troll
- Strobe
- Fort
- ROOF
- Turv
- STOP
New Strands Today (Game #518) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 10 letters
New Strands Today (Game #518) – Tip No. 4 – Spangrogram 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 #518) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #518, is …
- Muff
- Whiff
- ERROR
- ERROR
- Fumble
- Bobble
- Blooper
- Spanggram: Sports -Goof
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 tips
I hated this game. None of these words meant anything to me, and my first three game words gave me nothing to control me in the right direction-I got the first two thanks to double-fs and from there took some tips.
In the end, it didn’t matter as my knowledge of sports did not extend to SportsGoof, but I got the general idea.
Instead, today’s game became a random word search, and I fumbled, hops and flattered my way to the exhausting end of it.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Saturday 2nd August, Game #517)
- FILTER
- CROP
- Blurred
- ADAPT
- Plain
- Markup
- ROTATE
- Spanggram: Photo editor
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.



