Strands是纽约时报推出的一款新颖的单词搜索游戏，它在经典玩法上进行了创新。玩家需要连接字母，这些字母可以上下左右或对角连接，并且单词可以改变方向，形成独特的形状。游戏网格中的每一个字母都必须组成一个答案。所有答案都围绕一个主题，还有一个特殊的“spangram”，即一个贯穿整个网格（水平或垂直）的词语或短语，概括了当天的主题。游戏不提供单词列表，只给出模糊的提示，使其更具挑战性，游戏时长也比Wordle和Connections等其他游戏更长。本文提供了游戏玩法介绍、今日主题和spangram提示及答案，以及部分单词列表，帮助玩家更快地找到答案。

💡 Strands游戏的核心玩法是连接字母组成单词，字母可以朝任意方向连接，并且允许改变方向，这使得单词的排列形式更加多样化，增加了游戏的趣味性和挑战性。

🌟 游戏强调“万物皆有关联”，网格中的每一个字母都必须是组成单词的一部分，并且所有单词都围绕一个统一的主题。此外，还有一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”是当日主题的总结。

🧐 游戏不提供直接的单词列表，而是通过提供不明确的提示来引导玩家。这种设计增加了游戏的脑力挑战，使其成为一款需要花费更多时间和精力才能完成的益智游戏。

🌸 本文提供了当日Strands游戏的具体攻略，包括主题“纸张折叠相关”和“spangram”答案“Origami”，以及部分单词列表（Fish, Crane, Boat, Frog, Kite, Butterfly, Heart, Flower），帮助玩家理解游戏内容并快速找到答案。

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: I fold!

The words are paper-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are ways to fold paper.

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 Origami.

NYT Strands word list for July 21

Fish

Crane

Boat

Frog

Kite

Origami

Butterfly

Heart

Flower

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