XWord Muggles Forum

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.

That was fun. Took a while to get used to.

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 #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)

KayW wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:06 pm 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)

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.

Strands #7
“Sounds good to me”



And the lightbulbs are hints. OK, so yesterday I didn’t really like it. Today was better.

Strands #7
“Sounds good to me”
💡🔵💡🔵
🔵🔵🟡🔵
🔵

Just tried it for the first time, and I liked it!

hoover wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:43 pm

KayW wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:06 pm 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)

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.

Yep! Exactly.

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”

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 )
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.

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”

Haha. Yes. I would have quite a few, today.
Strands #10
“One thousand followers”

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”

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”