Threads Answers and Hints for November 12, 2026
The board
0 of 5 foundTap any tile to see where it goes in its word.
What links today's words?
The setter's label for the day's theme. The game never shows it, and it comes close to giving away the Golden Thread.
Thread 1
Thread 2
Thread 3
Thread 4
The Golden Thread
The word that names what the other four have in common.
How Threads Works
Every Threads puzzle is a board of 25 tiles in five columns of five. Most tiles carry one letter and some carry two. Five words are hidden in the board, and you spell each one by picking one tile from every column, reading left to right. Every tile belongs to exactly one word, and a word you find takes its tiles off the board, so the grid gets smaller as you go.
Four of the words share a theme. The fifth is the Golden Thread, the word that ties the other four together. The Daily Mail's own example: if the Golden Thread is ANIMALS, you might be hunting for KANGAROO, SQUIRREL, ELEPHANT and HEDGEHOG. Some answers are two words run together, such as APPLEPIE. There is no guess limit; wrong combinations are counted, and the puzzle ends when all five words are found. A new board appears every day at midnight UK time.
How to Use These Hints
The board above is the day's puzzle exactly as the game lays it out. Each word has its own card, with the Golden Thread last. Start with the gentlest hint, the word's letter count. Next, turn over its tiles one at a time, left to right, the same help the game's own Hint button gives; each tile you reveal lights up on the board in that word's colour, joined to the tiles before it. The word itself sits behind letter tiles at the bottom of the card: tap one for a single letter, or show the whole word.
"What links today's words?" reveals the setter's own label for the theme, which the game never shows. It is a strong hint, so it has its own button. The day tabs cover the last three puzzles.
Threads Strategy
- Start with the first column. Every word begins with one of those five tiles, so they tell you how the five words open.
- Place the awkward tiles first. Unusual letter pairs fit very few words, so a tile like DM or KS usually has only one place it can go.
- Find two or three themed words before chasing the Golden Thread. Once you can see what they share, the Golden Thread is the word that names it.
- Count the columns. Each word uses exactly five tiles, so a long word needs several two-letter tiles and a short word mostly single letters.
- Every word you find removes a tile from each column, so the last word always solves itself.
If You Like Threads
For a themed word hunt in a letter grid, try the Strands solver, and see the main game solvers hub for every other daily game we cover.
Frequently Asked Questions
A daily word game launched in November 2026. Five words are hidden in a grid of 25 letter tiles, set out in five columns of five. You spell each word by picking one tile from every column, left to right.
The fifth word, which names what the other four have in common. If the Golden Thread is PLANETS, the other four are planets.
Every day at midnight UK time, on the Daily Mail website and app.
Behind the letter tiles at the bottom of each word's card. Tap one tile for a letter, or Show answer for the whole word. The page moves to the new puzzle every day.
Yes. Two-word answers are spelled with no space, so apple pie appears as APPLEPIE and ice cream as ICECREAM.
No. Wrong combinations are counted, but the puzzle only ends when all five words are found.
No. Strands hides words in a letter grid you trace in any direction; Threads uses one tile per column, left to right. For Strands, see our Strands solver.