Strands是纽约时报推出的一款新颖的文字游戏，与传统的单词搜索不同，它允许字母连接方向多变，形成各种形状。游戏强调所有字母都必须被使用，并通过一个核心主题和贯穿整个网格的“spangram”（主题词）来连接所有答案。游戏不提供单词列表，并给出模糊的提示，旨在提供更具挑战性的游戏体验。本文为玩家提供了游戏玩法介绍、今日游戏主题“夏日天气”的提示、spangram线索及答案，并列出了相关单词，帮助玩家更好地理解和游玩此游戏。

✨ Strands游戏的核心玩法在于字母连接的灵活性，玩家可以通过上下左右或对角线连接字母，并且单词的连接方向可以改变，形成不规则的形状，这增加了游戏的趣味性和挑战性。

🎯 游戏设定所有字母都必须是答案的一部分，并且存在一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”，它是一个概括当天主题的特殊词语或短语，为玩家提供了重要的解谜线索。

💡 Strands游戏通过提供不透明的提示和不公开单词列表，创造了一个烧脑的解谜体验，使得游戏时间比Wordle等其他游戏更长，需要玩家投入更多时间和精力去思考。

☀️ 本文特别提供了7月19日Strands游戏的具体提示，主题为“夏日天气”，相关词语都与高温有关，spangram为“Summer Weather”，并且是垂直排列的，帮助玩家快速定位和解决谜题。

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 preferrined pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Hot enough for ya?

The words are heat-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe high temperatures.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Summer Weather.

NYT Strands word list for July 19

Balmy

Scorching

Muggy

Summer Weather

Sticky

Sweltering

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