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 -Wires suggest and Reply to Saturday 21 June (Game #475).
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 #476) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new string theme is … scented abuse
New Strands Today (Game #476) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- Deck
- KING
- Pens
- SMALL
- Sour
- DOOR
New Strands Today (Game #476) – Tip No. 3 – Spanframe letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 10 letters
New Strands Today (Game #476) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: bottom, 5th column
Last Page: Top, 1. Column
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -threads today (game #476) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #476, is …
- Smelly
- Sharp
- Reeking
- Foul
- RANK
- Malodorous
- Spangram: It stinks
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 tip
As the owner of a lovely chocolate labrador, I am no stranger to smelly things, and have regularly shouted that stinks on him – usually after he has rolled in something that I really had, really, had not rolled in.
In these days he could definitely be described as reeking, rank, be evil or have a pungent smell, so once I had prepared what the concept was here, it was not too difficult to find the answers.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Saturday 21 June, Game #475)
- Nada
- ZERO
- Nothing
- Zilch
- Zippo
- Nothing
- BUPKIS
- Spangram: Diddly Squat
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.



