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 Monday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New Strand’s Tip and Reply to Monday 16 June (Game #470).
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 #471) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings theme is … make it work
New Strands Today (Game #471) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Sweet
- FIRE
- ANGEL
- Coven
- WOOD
- RIGHT
New Strands Today (Game #471) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram letters
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 9 letters
New Strands Today (Game #471) – 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 #471) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #471, are …
- Finagle
- Finesse
- Struggle
- ENGINEER
- NEGOTIATE
- Spanggram: Find out
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 tips
This felt like a really difficult thread, but also a tremendously entertaining one to loosen.
I couldn’t work out the kinds of words we were looking for, I found a handful of wrong words when I searched for business and ended up taking two tips. The words I got, Finagle and Finesse, seemed to be about changing and refining things, so I went in search of similar.
After twisting out and the tense, I was just about to be able to white my way to the end of the search and the satisfactory sense of completion.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Monday 16th June, Game #470)
- Etude
- Suite
- Minuet
- Nocturne
- Sonata
- Prelude
- Spanggram: Piano pieces
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.
