By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

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Strands is a tricky take on the classic word search from NYT Games. If you're stuck and cannot solve today's puzzle, we've ...