I'm honestly a bit surprised that strands has managed to stick around as long as it has in the current form. The way "hints" work especially mystifies me; I don

I'm honestly a bit surprised that strands has managed to stick around as long as it has in the current form. The way "hints" work especially mystifies me; I don't really get why someone would want an entire word given to them more than maybe once total just from being able to guess completely unrelated words that are in the puzzle.