Strands is a daily word game on nytimes.com. Find themed words hidden in a grid of letters, including one that spans the board.
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Guess the five-letter word in six tries. Colored tiles show how close each guess was.
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Solve four Wordle boards at once with nine guesses.
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Eight five-letter words, thirteen guesses, every guess on every board.
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Make as many words as you can from seven letters, always using the center one.
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Swap letters to fix a waffle-shaped grid of six words in fifteen moves.
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Find the secret word. Each guess is ranked by how close its meaning is.
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Unscramble four words, then use the circled letters to answer a pun-based cartoon riddle.
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Guess the secret word with feedback on which letters fit, where words can be any length.
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Guess the word by meaning, with a closeness score for every try.
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Find words from a set of letters, each usable a limited number of times, and hunt for the secret two-word phrase.
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Trace words through a square grid of letters and find every one.
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Build a ladder of words where each rung adds one letter and rearranges the previous word.
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