New Strand’s Tip and Response to Tuesday 4th February (Game #338)

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    New Strands Homescreen on a mobile phone screen on a light blue background.

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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 -Wire suggests and answers for Monday 3rd February (Game #337).

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 to 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 #338) – Tip No. 1 – Today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s new threads?

Dagens Nyt-strings are … ELF-centrated

New Strands Today (Game #338) – Tip No. 2 – Clue Words

Play one of these words to unlock the game tip system.

New Strands Today (Game #338) – Tip No. 3 – Spangram

What is a tip for today’s excitement?

Ramping beings

New Strands Today (Game #338) – 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 #338) – the answers

New beach's response to games 338 on a blue background

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The answers to today’s threads, game #338, is …



The biggest challenge for me today was to connect letters from the foulist difficult Leprechaun. Apart from that, I couldn’t have wished for a lighter thread.

Seeing the letter x in the puzzle is always a great help, and it proved it, helping me to find Pixie to start the hunt.

Among the hints were beer, and Hobgobin happens to be the name of a British beer brand. Maybe this was just a happy accident, maybe there’s an ale-head on the beach’s hq, or maybe I’m just thirsty.

How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.


Yesterday’s new strings response (Monday 3rd February, Game #337)


What is new threads?

Strands is Nyt’s new word game after Wordle and Connections. It is now out of beta, so it is a fully expanded member of Nyt’s Games Stable and can be played on New playground on desktop or mobile.

I have a full guide to how to play new threads, Complete with tips to solve it, so check it out if you struggle to beat it every day.