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A word search with a theme you have to deduce first, and one spangram threading corner to corner through the grid.
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Strands sits in Word Games under Play, filed as a minute.
About this category: Daily word puzzles, anagram hunts, crosswords and the whole family of games that grew out of one green-and-yellow grid. Most reset at midnight.
Yes. Strands is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Strands without signing up for anything.
Yes. Strands works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
Swap letters around a waffle-shaped grid to fix six words at once, with only fifteen swaps and stars for every one you save.
Six goes at one five-letter word, the same word for everybody, once a day. The puzzle that spawned an entire genre in three months.
Sixteen words, four hidden groups, four mistakes allowed. The traps are the entire point and they are very carefully set.
Guess the secret word and be told only how semantically close you got. Rank 4,000 feels like progress, and it very much is not.
The actual cables carrying the internet between continents, each one named, with its landing points and the year it went live.
Clean daily sudoku across five difficulties, with a notes mode that behaves the way a pencil is supposed to.
Real-time First World War grand strategy played over weeks against dozens of other people, most of whom will lie to you.
Ascending through increasingly abstract mathematics, with a community that treats optimising it as a competitive spreadsheet sport.
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