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.
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.
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!” 🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵🔵Fun game. Thanks for sharing.
“Take a load off!” 🔵🟡💡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵I like strands. I start from corners. I keep the spangram for last for aesthetic purposes.
I go spangram first because to me it’s like getting purple first in connections, and lets me hold my nose high over my friends.
You are badass. I would do that if I could. Connections is even harder.
Oh don’t get me wrong I miss it a lot, it’s just my subtle goal.
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: ```
