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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #575 on: December 06, 2024, 12:01:31 PM »
Strands #278
“Find your people”
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Reverse Perfecto. Quite hard to spot the spangram and the last word though
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #576 on: December 06, 2024, 02:23:59 PM »
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Strands #278
“Find your people”
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Reverse Perfecto. Quite hard to spot the spangram and the last word though
I got a reverse perfecto too. Was your last word the one inside the spangram?  I spotted the spangram before it, but held off playing it so I could get  r.p.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #577 on: December 07, 2024, 04:00:55 AM »
One to the hint bucket, annoyingly.
Strands #279
“Prepare to be eaten”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #578 on: December 07, 2024, 11:22:09 AM »
Strands #279
“Prepare to be eaten”
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Probably the same one in the hint bucket that Steve had.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #579 on: December 07, 2024, 11:22:45 AM »
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I got a reverse perfecto too. Was your last word the one inside the spangram?  I spotted the spangram before it, but held off playing it so I could get  r.p.
Yes. That's what made it harder
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #580 on: December 08, 2024, 07:14:24 AM »
Strands #280
“A timely theme”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #581 on: December 08, 2024, 09:13:18 AM »
Strands #280
“A timely theme”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #582 on: December 08, 2024, 12:53:22 PM »
Strands #280
“A timely theme”
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Reverse perfecto.

Although the first word I found didn't appear to have anything to do with the theme.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #583 on: December 09, 2024, 07:27:23 AM »
Hopeless - didn't know what the theme was until the very end.
Strands #281
“Quiet at first”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #584 on: December 09, 2024, 11:24:23 AM »
Strands #281
“Quiet at first”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #585 on: December 09, 2024, 11:25:03 AM »
Quote from: SteveH on December 09, 2024, 07:27:23 AM
Hopeless - didn't know what the theme was until the very end.
Strands #281
“Quiet at first”
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I'm impressed you found 18 words that are not part of the solution.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #586 on: December 09, 2024, 11:36:58 AM »
Strands #281
“Quiet at first”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #587 on: December 10, 2024, 06:54:19 AM »
Refreshingly easy, after yesterday's horror: nothing to the bucket.
Strands #282
“Something to see”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #588 on: December 10, 2024, 09:08:05 AM »
Strands #282
“Something to see”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #589 on: December 10, 2024, 10:06:35 AM »
Strands #282
“Something to see”
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Reverse perfecto
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #590 on: December 11, 2024, 07:59:43 AM »
Strands #283
“Board certified”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #591 on: December 11, 2024, 08:33:04 AM »
Three to the bucket, but at least I didn't use a hint.
Strands #283
“Board certified”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #592 on: December 11, 2024, 11:00:46 AM »
Strands #283
“Board certified”
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Reverse perfecto
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #593 on: December 12, 2024, 07:06:57 AM »
Strands #284
“Shape and bake”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #594 on: December 12, 2024, 09:06:31 AM »
Strands #284
“Shape and bake”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #595 on: December 12, 2024, 09:48:50 AM »
Strands #284
“Shape and bake”
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Accidentally put a word in the hint bucket.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #596 on: December 13, 2024, 07:05:40 AM »
"At first, I thought the theme was something else", Tom said swiftly.
Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #597 on: December 13, 2024, 11:45:45 AM »
Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”
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I had to use Google, not being at all familiar with the subject matter.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #598 on: December 13, 2024, 12:14:01 PM »
Not even trying. I know nothing of Swift - other than that she is a global sensation.

Her work has completely passed me by.
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Re: Strands - another new word game.
« Reply #599 on: December 13, 2024, 03:24:12 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on December 13, 2024, 11:45:45 AM
Strands #285
“One for the Swifties”
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I had to use Google, not being at all familiar with the subject matter.
Me too.
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