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It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

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Today’s NYT Strands theme is…

This is the place!

Wordle: The Rules, Strategy…

There are approximately 10,000 cities in the world.

There are at least a few hundred in the US alone, depending on how you define a city.

And the task the NYT gave us today for Strands?

Prime

Name six of them.

No theme or connection between them.

Just six CITYNAMEs, all of them in the US.

Wordle Words: A genius word…

But all the same, it’s stretching things a bit to call CITYNAME a unifying theme.

That lack of a real concept behind it made it difficult to solve.

Little did I know…

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Wordle Game Boards: 120 pages…

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

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