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 Thursday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New Strand’s Tip and Response to Thursday, July 10 (Game #494).
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 #495) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s new threads?
• Today’s new strings theme is … It can be verse
New Strands Today (Game #495) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words
Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.
- SMILE
- Pile
- RACE
- Lace
- Chip
- SLIDE
New Strands Today (Game #495) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram letter
How many letters are there at the point of the day?
• Spangram has 6 letters
New Strands Today (Game #495) – Tip No. 4 – Spangramp Dosition
What are two sides of the board that today’s tense touches?
First page: Left, 5th 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 #495) – the answers
The answers to today’s threads, game #495, is …
- Sonnet
- Limerick
- Epic
- Elegy
- Haiku
- Ballad
- Acrostic
- Spangram: Poetry
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 tips
So even though I saw the word sonnet really quickly, I struggled with the rest of today’s word search and needed a few tips to get me home.
Either way, I think I’ve may have been distracted by the number of rhyming non-play words on the board (I couldn’t resist) and the incredibly short pointed it has been a while since we’ve had a minimal snake with six letters.
Despite being only eight letters left, Acrostic still took me a while to get as it was a new word for me – it’s a poem where the first letter of each line forms a word. Like a puzzle within a poem.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new strings answer (Thursday 10th July, Game #494)
- Drowsy
- Used
- Tired
- Tired
- TIRED
- Buttoned
- Spangram: Sleepyhead
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.
