Strands是纽约时报推出的一款新颖的文字游戏，它在经典单词搜索的基础上进行了创新。玩家需要将字母连接起来组成单词，连接方式包括上下左右及对角线，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被用在答案中。所有单词都围绕一个共同的主题，还有一个特殊的“spangram”——一个贯穿整个网格（水平或垂直）的词语或短语，概括了当天的游戏主题。与Wordle和Connections等游戏不同，Strands没有提供单词列表，而是给出一个模糊的提示，增加了游戏的挑战性和趣味性，需要玩家花费更多时间来解谜。

🧩 Strands游戏的核心玩法是将相邻的字母连接成单词，连接方式多样，包括上下左右和对角线，并且单词的走向可以改变，增加了游戏的灵活性和挑战性。

💡 游戏强调网格中所有字母的利用，每个字母都必须是某个单词的一部分，这要求玩家对整个网格进行全局的思考和布局。

🎯 游戏设定了一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”，它不仅是单词的一部分，更是当日主题的概括，并且只能水平或垂直排列，为玩家提供了重要的解谜线索。

🤔 Strands游戏通过提供模糊的提示而非直接的单词列表，显著提升了游戏的脑力挑战，让玩家需要更多的时间和策略来完成解谜，区别于其他纽约时报的文字游戏。

🌶️ 游戏的主题和单词都与食物相关，例如Salsa、Queso、Guacamole、Party Dips、Tzatziki、Hummus和Fondue等，当日的spangram是“Party Dips”，为玩家提供了具体的解题方向。

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: Chips in

The words are food-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are things you sharable appetizers

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 Party Dips.

NYT Strands word list for July 23

Salsa

Queso

Guacamole

Party Dips

Tzatziki

Hummus

Fondue

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