Strands是纽约时报推出的一款进阶版文字搜索游戏，它要求玩家在网格中连接字母形成单词，单词可以改变方向，并且网格中的每个字母都属于一个答案。所有答案都与一个主题相关，还有一个特殊的“跨格词”概括当天的主题，该词横跨整个网格。与Wordle和Connections相比，Strands通过提供模糊的提示而不是单词列表，创造了一个更具挑战性的游戏体验。本文提供了1月3日Strands游戏的线索和答案，主题是汽车的外部部件，跨格词是“CarBody”。

🧩Strands游戏是经典文字搜索的变体，单词由网格中相连的字母组成，可以横向、纵向、斜向连接，并且单词可以改变方向。

💡每个谜题都有一个主题，所有答案都与该主题相关。此外，还有一个“跨格词”，它是一个单词或短语，概括了当天的主题，并横跨整个网格，可能是水平或垂直的。

🚗1月3日Strands的主题是“汽车的外部部件”，答案包括Hood（引擎盖）、Mirror（后视镜）、Trunk（后备箱）、Windshield（挡风玻璃）、Door（车门）、Bumper（保险杠）、Grille（格栅），跨格词是CarBody（车身）。

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: On auto

These words are outer pieces of a car.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

Words are parts of an automobile.

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 CarBody.

NYT Strands word list for January 3

Hood

Mirror

Trunk

Windshield

Door

Bumper

Grille

Car Body

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