This website allows you to create your own NYT-style strands games and send them to your friends as well as play strands games from the community. Create an account if you want to put your name on the strands you create, keep track of the games you have completed, or publish to the customstrandsnyt.com community.

Features

About

• Statistics: How much the website is being used?
• Documentation: Detailed information on the technology used in the website
• History: A timeline of website development

Archive (Sunsetted)

• Links to past NYT Strands Games Sorted By Date

Explore

• Links to top created games by authors
• (Authenticated) Completed games are not shown

Play

• Swiping to select words (with reverse swiping)
• Clicking to select words as well
• Copying sharing text to clipboard
• Multicolored sharing for more information
• Confetti after completion
• Keeping track of completions for statistics
• Redirection to a random unplayed (if logged in) public game
• Archive Quick Navigate within archive games for authenticated users.

Create

• Customizable Title and Theme
• UI for inputting Spangram and Words
• Automated board generator
• Manual board creator with intelligent fill
• Errors and Warnings for puzzle creation
• Custom URL
• URL uniqueness checker
• Save a game to a logged in profile
• Quick User to change author in create page

Users

• Email-unique users with encryped passwords
• Password Reset Functionality
• Editable Profile for Display Name and Biography
• Editable displayed games, with ability to change the order and visibility of created games
• Tracking of completition of games
• Allows all links to games to be marked if previously completed from Archive and Profile pages
• Authenticated users see no inline ads