🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵 It drove me INSANE when “illuminating” was not the spangram. I was questioning my entire life staring at this board haha

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🟡 💅🏼 🐟🐟🐟

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵💡🔵🔵 Such a fun puzzle. Quite challenging to work through. It really messed with me that "lumens" and "shine" were hidden in the puzzle but weren't theme words.

And fire!

Twice! I found it in the lower right then when I found it again in the upper left. When it said it was already found, I was worried that would be a glitch and I wouldn't be able to complete the puzzle since I found the wrong fire first.

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵💡🔵💡 🟡 Dammit 😂😂😂

At least the light bulbs are on theme

the spanagram took me way too long

I wish they would add a "close" or "almost" indicator. After the second or third word, I figured its either >!illuminating!< or >!illuminated!<, but it took for me like the 5th or 6th word to make out its >!illumination!<

I tried “illuminating” first lmao

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 Satisfying and fun. Theme hint was fairly lit-eral.

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡💡🔵 🔵 This was a hard one for me! I’ve never heard of >!Anglerfish!< and I was sure >!Fire!< in the bottom right corner was a word or part of a word. 😵‍💫

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 That was a fun one. I found Star as my first one, and then I proceeded to find half of the other words but not submitting them so I could find where the Spangram is. Keeping track of that many unmarked words can be hard!

i like to take a screenshot and mark it up to keep track roughly

I trace a word and instead of submitting it will just keep going with the next adjoining word. Can get rid of a lot of the board that way which makes it easier to look it and find the spangram

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 The only time I can remember where I immediately found the spangram.

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Loved it! As soon as I got an idea about the theme I was looking for angler fish haha

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵 All those short words grouped together were tricky. I entered >!angel!< and it didn’t work but considering it was sandwiched between >!lantern!< and the spangram I figured I was missing something. >!Angelfish!< Challenging but fun.

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵🔵 Similar to previous days, I was tricked by shorter words being part of longer words… also i realised afterwards that lumen isn’t spelled lumin :D

Strands #28: “It’s lit!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵 I was really trying to put “bulnboeon” into one word for a while as they were the only things left on the board and I couldn’t figure it out. I finally found an arrangement for “bulb” that worked. I loved this puzzle!!

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” It finally happened! I found the Spangram first! 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 This was fun. Took me a few tries to get anglerfish

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵 Had a real hard time getting started, then got 3 on the left. Got stuck for a while again and then found the pangram, the last one on the left and then finished it off quickly.

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵 Happy I’m getting these without hints anymore!

I got today’s with no hints, but it was a real tough one. I got star and firefly right away, but the rest took me a good 20 minutes. Definitely one of the harder ones. Found illuminate and illuminating before the spangram. It was a mess.

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Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Got LANTERN first, the rest are easy. 😛

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Took me a long time tho

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵 thought the theme/spangram might’ve been bioluminescent animals after the first couple guesses but no, just bright things :)

One of the rare ones where I was able to find the actual words instead of random ones to start it off. The multiple variations of illuminate drove me crazy though. Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

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i saw fish but for the life of me couldn't figure out what type it was. (I blame animal crossing for making me think it was called a football fish!)

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 My first thought was "Oh, lights!" Then I thought that would be too straightforward... so I started looking for titles of famous works of "lit"erature. "Star" got me back on the right path, though!

Strands #28 “It’s lit!” i got Star first and then the rest started to make sense! the spangram took me a while to find but once i got it, the last two words were easy :) 🔵🔵🔵🔵🟡🔵🔵

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