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New daily word game challenges you to be succinct

Sheets.works' Long Story Short asks players to compress a 12-word sentence into just five, born from frustration with AI-bloated writing.

Gail P Sherman
Aug 12, 2026
∙ Paid
daily word game — Image: Faizal Ramli/Shutterstock
daily word game — Image: Faizal Ramli/Shutterstock

Take twelve words and rearrange them to say the same thing in just five. That's the game.

Sheets.works takes spreadsheets and turns them into dashboards and reports. To show off their chops in a fun way, they release a Data Drop once a week, like a collection of startup sounds or an explanation of why it…

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