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Word Salad Classic hints for · #617
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Things You Do To Hair
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BRAID follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- B: row 1, column 3
- R: row 2, column 2
- A: row 3, column 2
- I: row 3, column 1
- D: row 4, column 1
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
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BRUSH follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- B: row 1, column 3
- R: row 2, column 2
- U: row 2, column 3
- S: row 1, column 2
- H: row 2, column 1
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
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CURL follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- C: row 1, column 4
- U: row 2, column 3
- R: row 2, column 2
- L: row 3, column 3
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
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PART follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- P: row 4, column 3
- A: row 3, column 2
- R: row 2, column 2
- T: row 1, column 1
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
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PLUCK follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- P: row 4, column 3
- L: row 3, column 3
- U: row 2, column 3
- C: row 1, column 4
- K: row 2, column 4
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
Trace answer 6 on the recorded grid
SHAMPOO follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- S: row 1, column 2
- H: row 2, column 1
- A: row 3, column 2
- M: row 4, column 2
- P: row 4, column 3
- O: row 3, column 4
- O: row 4, column 4
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
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TRIM follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.
- T: row 1, column 1
- R: row 2, column 2
- I: row 3, column 1
- M: row 4, column 2
This is one validated path on the original recorded grid. Different answers may share cells; a board with vanished letters should be entered in the solver as it now appears.
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Also on November 7, 2025
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Recorded from the existing verified source adapter. Source retrieved .
Selected from the publisher's dated schedule as observed at retrieval. The verified first row is 1 March 2024; publication is at 06:00 UTC.
Letter clues and worked solving examples are deterministic calculations. Record revision: 0da50864b0d3.
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