What time does Strands reset?
Strands resets at midnight in your local time zone, so a new theme clue and grid appear as soon as your own clock rolls into the next day. Clue Cache publishes its Strands hints just after midnight Eastern, before the later zones reach their own flip.
The reset time
Those four midnights are not one single moment. Eastern players flip first in the United States, then Central an hour later, Mountain an hour after that, and Pacific an hour after that. If a friend across the country already has the new theme clue and you do not, your own midnight has probably not arrived yet.
When Clue Cache publishes: our Strands hints go up minutes after the midnight Eastern rollover, so they are ready before the Central, Mountain and Pacific flips.
Questions
- Does Strands reset at the same moment for everyone?
No. Strands follows your local clock, so players in different time zones get the new grid at different moments. Everyone in the same time zone on the same date plays the same theme and spangram.
- It is past midnight and I still see yesterday's grid. What should I do?
Reload the game or close and reopen the app. If it still shows the old grid, check that your device clock and time zone are set correctly, since the game reads the time from your device.
- Do unused Strands hints carry over to the next day?
No. Hints belong to the board that earned them, and the board changes at your local midnight. Use them on the day you earn them, or let them go.