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Check them out if you need them, scroll down to my commentary if not.

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

That can sometimes help, but not in this case for me at least.

Wordle: The Rules, Strategy…

The trouble after that was simply that I couldn’t find more words.

SOAP was backwards, so to speak, so that took me a while too.

And CONDITIONER foxed me right until I’d discovered everything else.

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Maybe it was just a bad day for me.

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Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections.

Wordle Words: A genius word…

It’s currently in Beta and can be played on theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.

Wordle Game Boards: 120 pages…

NYT Strands answers to game #56 on a blue background