Strands是纽约时报推出的一款文字搜索游戏，它在传统文字搜索的基础上进行了创新。玩家需要在网格中连接字母形成单词，单词方向可以改变，形成独特的形状和模式。每个字母都属于一个答案，所有答案都与一个主题相关，并有一个特殊的“跨字谜”词语或短语总结主题，横跨整个网格。游戏通过提供模糊的提示而非单词列表，增加了难度和趣味性。本文提供了12月15日Strands的提示和答案，主题是月相，包括月相的各种描述词汇，帮助玩家快速通关。

🧩Strands游戏是纽约时报推出的创新文字搜索游戏，单词可以通过上下左右或对角线连接，且方向可以改变。

💡每个Strands谜题都有一个主题，所有单词都与之相关，还有一个横跨网格的“跨字谜”总结主题。

🌙12月15日Strands的主题是“月相”，答案词汇包括Waxing（渐盈）,Full（满月）,Waning（渐亏）,Crescent（新月）,Gibbous（凸月）,Quarter（弦月）等。

✨今天的跨字谜是“LunarPhases”，它水平横跨网格，总结了当天的主题。

🎮Strands游戏难度比Wordle和Connections稍高，需要更多时间来解决，但本文提供了提示和答案，帮助玩家快速通关。

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: Moonlighting!

These words are how you might describe the size of the moon.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

Words describe phases of the moon.

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 LunarPhases.

NYT Strands word list for December 15

Waxing

Full

Waning

Crescent

Gibbous

Quarter

LunarPhase

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