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!” 🔵🔵🔵🔵
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Fun game. Thanks for sharing.

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

Strands #103 “Take a load off!”

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Thanks for sharing. I've never played this before, but I like the concept. I needed a lot of hints to finish it though.

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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
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I like strands. I start from corners. I keep the spangram for last for aesthetic purposes.