Strands是纽约时报推出的一款新颖的文字游戏，它在经典的单词搜索基础上进行了创新。玩家需要连接相邻的字母，形成单词，这些单词可以上下左右或对角线连接，甚至可以改变方向。游戏 grid 中的每一个字母都必须包含在一个单词中。所有单词都围绕一个主题，并且存在一个贯穿整个 grid 的“spangram”，它概括了当天的主题。Strands通过提供不透明的提示且不列出单词表，创造了一个烧脑的体验，游戏时间比Wordle和Connections等其他游戏要长。本文提供了Strands游戏的玩法介绍、核心机制以及特定日期（7月22日）的提示和答案，帮助玩家更好地理解和玩转这款游戏。

💡 Strands是一款文字游戏，要求玩家连接字母形成单词，连接方式包括上下左右及对角线，且单词可以改变方向，grid中的每个字母都必须被使用。

🎯 游戏的核心机制在于围绕一个共同主题连接单词，并找出概括主题的“spangram”，spangram会贯穿整个游戏网格，提供额外的挑战和线索。

🔍 与其他文字游戏不同，Strands不提供单词列表，而是通过模糊的提示来引导玩家，增加了游戏的难度和思考的深度，鼓励玩家进行更长时间的探索。

🐠 针对特定日期（7月22日）的Strands游戏，其主题是“宠物店购买”，提示词与鱼类相关，例如Pump, Fish, Plants, Aquarium, Tank, Rocks, Thermometer，而spangram是“Aquarium”。

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: Pet store purchase

The words are water-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are things you buy for a fish.

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 Aquarium.

NYT Strands word list for July 22

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Pump

Fish

Plants

Aquarium

Tank

Rocks

Thermometer

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