Strands是纽约时报推出的一款创新的文字搜索游戏，它在经典玩法基础上增加了词语可以改变方向的独特机制，要求玩家在一个字母网格中寻找与特定主题相关的词语。游戏不提供词语列表，而是给予模糊提示，增加了挑战性。玩家需要找到所有隐藏的词语，并且有一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”来概括当天的主题。本文将为玩家提供游戏技巧和当日主题的详细线索，帮助玩家更快地解开谜题。

💡 Strands游戏的核心玩法是在一个字母网格中寻找词语，与传统词语搜索不同的是，词语可以朝任意方向（上、下、左、右、对角线）连接，并且可以改变方向，形成不规则的形状。每个字母都必须属于一个词语。

🌟 游戏设定有一个贯穿整个网格的主题，所有的隐藏词语都与该主题相关，还有一个特殊的“spangram”词语或短语，它能概括当天的所有主题，并且总是水平或垂直地跨越整个网格。

🧐 Strands游戏通过提供不明确的提示和不直接给出词语列表来增加游戏的脑力挑战，使得游戏过程比Wordle或Connections等其他游戏更耗时。玩家需要花费10分钟以上的时间来解开谜题。

📸 针对2023年8月2日的Strands游戏，主题是“Pretty as a picture”，所有词语都与科技相关，具体来说是相机功能。当日的spangram是“Photo Editor”，它水平贯穿整个网格。

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: Pretty as a picture

The words are tech-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are types of camera functions.

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 Photo Editor.

NYT Strands word list for August 2

Filter

Markup

Rotate

Photo Editor

Blur

Adjust

Crop

Erase

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