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。玩家需要连接上下左右或对角线的字母来组成单词，并且单词的连接方向可以改变，形成独特的形状。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共同的主题，并包含一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”，即总结主题的特殊词语或短语。游戏不提供单词列表，仅给出模糊的提示，增加了游戏的挑战性和趣味性。

🎮 Strands游戏的核心玩法是连接字母组成单词，字母可以横、竖、斜向连接，并且可以改变方向，字母连接路径不拘泥于直线。

🎯 游戏网格中的每一个字母都必须属于一个单词，所有找到的单词都围绕一个共同的主题。

⭐ 游戏包含一个“spangram”，这是一个特殊的词语或短语，它概括了当天的游戏主题，并且在网格中水平或垂直贯穿整个长度。

💡 Strands游戏通过提供模糊的提示而非直接列出单词，增加了游戏的脑力挑战，使得游戏过程比Wordle或Connections等其他游戏更具深度和耗时。

🐍 在文章提供的例子中，当天的Strands游戏主题是“爬行动物”，spangram是“Serpent”（蛇），单词列表包括Viper、Anaconda、Rattler、Cobra、Adder、Python、Mamba等。

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: Slithering away

The words are animal-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are types of reptiles.

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 Serpent.

NYT Strands word list for August 1

Viper

Anaconda

Rattler

Cobra

Serpent

Adder

Python

Mamba

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