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 Friday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New threads suggest and answers for Friday 26. September (Games #572).
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 #573) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings theme is … Mother is the word
New Strands Today (Game #573) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- TUBE
- Gall
- Noted
- Wear
- USE
- BOWL
- BLIND
New Strands Today (Game #573) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram Letters
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 8 letters
New Strands Today (Game #573) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: bottom, 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 #573) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #573, is …
- Quiet
- Quiet
- Inaudible
- Housing
- Silent
- Spanggram: Pipedown
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
I’m sure I’m not the only player who immediately discovered the quiet combination of a Q word and its location in the upper left corner made this easy to recognize. Similarly, quiet was straightforward, but things got a little more difficult after that.
Hopefully I wasn’t the only player to look down and not put them together right away. To see today’s tip first to come after inaudible and hasty made it visible.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Friday 26th September, Game #572)
- Pendulum
- Gear
- Time
- Winder
- Weights
- Spanggram: Grandpa
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.



