纽约时报的Strands是一款升级版的单词搜索游戏，它在经典的基础上增加了新的玩法。玩家不仅可以上下左右或对角连接字母来组成单词，还可以改变单词的方向，形成独特的形状和图案。每个字母都会成为答案的一部分。游戏总是有一个主题贯穿所有答案，还有一个特殊的“spangram”单词或短语，它总结了当天的主题，并水平或垂直跨越整个网格。通过提供不透明的提示和不提供单词列表，Strands创造了一个需要更长时间来玩的脑力激荡游戏。

🧩Strands是一款由纽约时报推出的升级版单词搜索游戏，它在经典的基础上增加了新的玩法，允许单词改变方向，形成独特的形状和图案。

🔄每个字母都会成为答案的一部分，并且游戏总是有一个主题贯穿所有答案，以及一个特殊的“spangram”单词或短语来总结当天的主题。

💡游戏通过提供不透明的提示和不提供单词列表，创造了一个需要更长时间来玩的脑力激荡游戏，相比于Wordle和Connections等其他游戏，它更具挑战性。

🤫今日的主题是“一开始很安静”，意味着单词以一个不发音的字母开头，而今天的“spangram”是水平方向的“SilentLetter”。

🔍文章提供了包括Gnome、Knuckle、Honesty、Psalm、Wrap、Mnemonic在内的单词列表，帮助玩家解决当天的谜题。

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Quiet at first

These words start with a silent letter.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

Words start with a letter that is not pronounced.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is SilentLetter.

NYT Strands word list for December 9

Gnome

Knuckle

Honesty

Psalm

Wrap

Mnemonic

SilentLetter

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