Anyone else doing these? It's basically a fancy wordsearch. I don't typically like those, but I'm continuing to do these. I think it's mostly that the user interface is fun.
Strands (new NYT daily now in beta)
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Strands (new NYT daily now in beta)
New NYT game called Strands is now out in beta: https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands
Anyone else doing these? It's basically a fancy wordsearch. I don't typically like those, but I'm continuing to do these. I think it's mostly that the user interface is fun.
Anyone else doing these? It's basically a fancy wordsearch. I don't typically like those, but I'm continuing to do these. I think it's mostly that the user interface is fun.
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woozy
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That was fun. Took a while to get used to.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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hoover
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I did my first one a few days ago after someone posted it in a different thread. I'm not quite sure how to read the stats graph, though.
Strands #6
“FRAGILE: handle with care”
Strands #6
“FRAGILE: handle with care”
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Strands #7
“Sounds good to me”
I believe the yellow is the SPANGRAM, the blues are the individual words. However, I notice it does NOT include non-word tries (I had two of those today before I hit the SPANGRAM)
“Sounds good to me”
I believe the yellow is the SPANGRAM, the blues are the individual words. However, I notice it does NOT include non-word tries (I had two of those today before I hit the SPANGRAM)
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hoover
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Strands #7
“Sounds good to me”
I think the placement of the yellow dot in the results corresponds to the order in which you found it. I'm guessing you found the SPANGRAM first, and I know that I found it second.
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Strands #7
“Sounds good to me”
And the lightbulbs are hints. OK, so yesterday I didn’t really like it. Today was better.
“Sounds good to me”
And the lightbulbs are hints. OK, so yesterday I didn’t really like it. Today was better.
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Strands #7
“Sounds good to me”
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Just tried it for the first time, and I liked it!
“Sounds good to me”
💡🔵💡🔵
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Just tried it for the first time, and I liked it!
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KayW
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Yep! Exactly.
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hoover
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These may be a little too easy. Maybe good as a warmup to get the brain going with the first cup of coffee.
Strands #8
“To put it mildly”
Strands #8
“To put it mildly”
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Strands #8
“To put it mildly”
“To put it mildly”
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Strands #8
“To put it mildly”
Doing these and Lemon Squeezy, as well as Connections still, but not posting regularly -- (any accompanying pictures would get boring pretty quickly
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I'm also doing Trice but pretty halfheartedly (I know so little of the "young culture" stuff that shows up ) and sometimes just blow it off.
“To put it mildly”
Doing these and Lemon Squeezy, as well as Connections still, but not posting regularly -- (any accompanying pictures would get boring pretty quickly
)I'm also doing Trice but pretty halfheartedly (I know so little of the "young culture" stuff that shows up
) and sometimes just blow it off.-
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What this doesn't show you is the attempted words that weren't counted. That might be a nice addition to the stats graph.
Strands #10
“One thousand followers”
Strands #10
“One thousand followers”
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KayW
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Haha. Yes. I would have quite a few, today.
Strands #10
“One thousand followers”
Strands #10
“One thousand followers”
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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hoover
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These are not very challenging and therefore not very interesting, but I suppose it helps the NYT to have puzzles at various levels of difficulty to appeal to the greatest number of readers.
Strands #15
“World piece”
Strands #15
“World piece”
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KayW
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Well, so it's interesting and enjoyable enough for me to do as one of the six or so puzzles I tackle on a daily basis. But by and large the results don't seem "share-worthy"...
Strands #15
“World piece”
Strands #15
“World piece”
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.