Strands是纽约时报最新推出的文字游戏，它在经典单词搜索的基础上进行了创新。玩家需要连接字母找出单词，字母可以上下左右或对角线连接，甚至可以改变方向。游戏网格中的每个字母都必须被使用，所有单词都围绕一个主题，其中包含一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”词语，概括了当天的游戏主题。游戏不提供单词列表，而是给出模糊的提示，增加了游戏的挑战性和趣味性，通常需要10分钟以上才能完成。本文提供了游戏玩法介绍、主题解释、spangram线索以及当日的单词列表和答案，帮助玩家更好地理解和游玩这款游戏。

💡 Strands游戏玩法独特，打破了传统单词搜索的限制，允许字母连接方向多样化，并要求网格内所有字母都被使用，增加了游戏的复杂性和策略性。

🎯 游戏核心在于围绕一个特定主题寻找单词，并找出概括主题的“spangram”词语，这个词语会贯穿整个网格，是理解游戏的关键。

❓ Strands游戏通过提供模糊的提示而非直接列出单词，旨在提供更具挑战性和思考性的游戏体验，让玩家需要花费更多时间来解谜。

🔑 文章提供了当日游戏的主题解释（“ways to be correct”）、spangram的提示（垂直）和答案（“Taking Pains”），以及当日所有单词的列表，为玩家提供了直接的通关帮助。

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: You got that right!

The words are precision-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are ways to be correct.

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 Taking Pains.

NYT Strands word list for July 29

Precise

Accurate

Exact

Taking Pains

Strict

Persnickety

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