Track your Strands scores with friends
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Share your Strands result to Scordle and it lands in your club's feed, builds your streaks and stats, and counts in any Strands competition you're playing.
About Strands
Strands is a themed word search on a grid of letters. You find the theme words and one spangram that spans the board, and every three non-theme words you find earns you a hint.
How sharing Strands works
- Solve today's StrandsPlay as normal, on its own site.
- Share your result to ScordleUse the game's Share button, or copy the result and paste it in.
- Your score is read on your phoneScordle reads the hints you used, then posts it to your clubs.
What a Strands share looks like
Strands #726 “It's a little much” 💡🔵🔵🟡 💡💡🔵🔵
See every Strands you've played
- Your score distributionEvery result counted, for the week, month, year or all time.
- Tap a scoreTap 2 and the calendar lights up every day you made par.
- Tap again to clearOr tap a day for its result and who else played.
Par and score names
| Hints | Name | Means |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Eagle | Two under par |
| 1 | Birdie | One under par |
| 2 | Par | Two hints, a solid day |
| 3 | Bogey | One over par |
| 4 | Double bogey | Two over par |
| 5 | Triple bogey | Three over par |
| 6 | Triple bogey | Four over par |
| 7 | Triple bogey | Five over par |
| 8 | Triple bogey | Six over par |
| 9 | Triple bogey | Seven over par |
There's no way to fail Strands, so every day you play keeps your streak going. The fewer hints you need, the better you score.
Smart Streaks for Strands
Alongside your days-played streak, Scordle counts how many days in a row you've reached each level, with your best ever beside it.
- 0Eagle
- 1Birdie or better
- 2Par or better
- 3Bogey or better
- 4Double bogey or better
- 9Triple bogey or better
Missed a day? Grace days keep the streak alive.
Compare with your friends
- Pick a club-mateScordle lines up the games you both play.
- Score for scoreYour Strands results beside theirs, from Eagle to Triple bogey.
- Ratings, win rates and streaksSide by side, so you can see who's really ahead.
An example competition
Theme Week, you against Sam and Ada on Running Total: every score is added up, and the lowest total wins the week.
| Player | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Sam | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Ada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Ada wins on 3 hints, one clear of you. The card in your club feed shows the final standings. How to set up a competition
Strands questions
Can you fail Strands?
No. Every puzzle ends solved, so Scordle scores the hints you used. Zero is the best day and par is 2.
What's par for Strands?
Par is 2. Eagle is the best grade you can earn.
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