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 Wednesday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New Strand’s Tip and Response to Wednesday 13 August (Game #528).
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 #529) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Dagens New-String Theme is … Honest-to-Goodness
New Strands Today (Game #529) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- CINEMA
- ]Smokes
- CHANGE
- FLEA
- SAME
- Rides
New Strands Today (Game #529) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 8 letters
New Strands Today (Game #529) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: top, 3rd column
Last Page: Bottom, 4th Column
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -threads today (game #529) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #529, is …
- LEGITIMATE
- GENUINE
- Kosher
- GENUINE
- GENUINE
- AUTHENTIC
- Spanggram: Bonafide
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Being authentic is something they are really interested in on my favorite reality -tv -show, Traitors.
I’m often back and asking myself if you were a real and authentic person would you really want to go on a TV show where you have to lie and deceive your fellow stars to win? Surely, the more authentic is someone, the more suspicious you have to be of their motives.
Still, I’ll take off. I keep it right and say this was quite a basic threads. A straight up and down tip that was easy to spot, no weird words and minimal cork screw turns.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Wednesday 13th August, Game #528)
- Psycho
- Vertigo
- ROPE
- LIFEBOAT
- Topaz
- NOTORIOUS
- Spanggram: Film title
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.



