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Word Salad Classic hints for · #749

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5 words. Every reveal is your choice.

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Cities With 100-year-old Subways

Puzzle source: Word Salad official game. The date above follows UTC.

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BERLIN follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.

  1. B: row 4, column 3
  2. E: row 4, column 2
  3. R: row 3, column 1
  4. L: row 2, column 1
  5. I: row 2, column 2
  6. N: row 1, 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.

Trace answer 2 on the recorded grid

BOSTON follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.

  1. B: row 4, column 3
  2. O: row 4, column 4
  3. S: row 3, column 3
  4. T: row 2, column 4
  5. O: row 1, column 3
  6. N: row 1, 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.

Trace answer 3 on the recorded grid

BUDAPEST follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.

  1. B: row 4, column 3
  2. U: row 3, column 4
  3. D: row 2, column 3
  4. A: row 3, column 2
  5. P: row 4, column 1
  6. E: row 4, column 2
  7. S: row 3, column 3
  8. T: 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 4 on the recorded grid

LONDON follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.

  1. L: row 2, column 1
  2. O: row 1, column 1
  3. N: row 1, column 2
  4. D: row 2, column 3
  5. O: row 1, column 3
  6. N: row 1, 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 5 on the recorded grid

PARIS follows the cells below. Every consecutive cell touches the next, including diagonally, and no cell is used twice within this word.

  1. P: row 4, column 1
  2. A: row 3, column 2
  3. R: row 3, column 1
  4. I: row 2, column 2
  5. S: 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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Also on March 19, 2026

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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: f98372c44a1a.

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