Anyone playing NYT Strands?
Anyone playing NYT Strands?
The objective? Use every letter on the board to find today’s linked words plus their hidden theme. A new puzzle is added daily.
I started playing this about a week ago and have been having a great time.
It's kind of like a word search that can go in any direction after every letter, but can't overlap, and you don't know the words. There's also a special word (sometimes 2 words together) called "spangram" each day that will go from one side of the board to the other and spell out the theme of the other words.
Strands has been my favorite NYT game since shortly after it became available. On most days enjoyable, and rarely has the level of nonsense categories as Connections does.
Learned a new word, and after looking up photos, I want one
(the spoiler tag doesn't work for all clients so I didn't add the word itself)
Strands #103 “Take a load off!” 💡🔵💡🔵 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵Strands #103 “Take a load off!”
🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵🟡Thanks for sharing. I've never played this before, but I like the concept. I needed a lot of hints to finish it though.
Hints are fine! It takes a couple days to train your brain to see the words jumbled in that way.
Strands #103 “Take a load off!” 🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵🔵Fun game. Thanks for sharing.
“Take a load off!” 🔵🟡💡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵We've been playing it at work, sometimes it's really easy and other times really hard. We try to do it "perfect": no hints and getting the spangram first. A couple times I even did it without finding any other words at all, but only once. Really depends on if you can figure out the theme in my experience... Sometimes they are very obtuse like Saturday nyt crossword clues
(Edit: I had to add extra newlines to make the formatting work for Lemmy/Sync; not sure if there's an easier way)
Strands #103
“Take a load off!”
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I see what you mean, I wrapped mine in code block notation which might be a little easier.
Add three backticks before and after the content: ```