Strands是一款纽约时报推出的创新文字游戏，它在经典寻词游戏的基础上进行了升级。游戏中，玩家需要连接字母来组成单词，字母可以上下左右或对角线连接，甚至可以在单词内部改变方向，形成独特的形状。该游戏的独特之处在于，网格中的每一个字母都必须构成一个答案的一部分，所有单词都围绕一个主题，并且存在一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”——一个概括主题的特殊词语或短语。Strands通过提供模糊的提示和不直接给出单词列表，为玩家带来更具挑战性的体验，游戏时长也相对较长。

🎨 Strands游戏核心玩法：玩家需要在字母网格中连接字母组成单词，字母连接方式包括上下左右及对角线，且单词在形成过程中允许改变方向，创造出多样化的字母路径。

🖼️ 全字母利用与主题关联：游戏规定网格中的每一个字母都必须属于某个单词，所有单词都围绕一个特定的主题展开，玩家需要找出这个隐藏的主题。

📐 Spangram概念：游戏设有一个“spangram”，这是一个贯穿整个网格（水平或垂直）的特殊单词或短语，它概括了当日游戏的主题，是解谜的关键线索。

💡 游戏挑战性设计：Strands通过提供不易察觉的提示和不直接公布单词列表，增加了游戏的脑力挑战和趣味性，鼓励玩家深入思考和探索。

🌻 今日主题与单词示例：文中提到当日游戏的主题与绘画艺术相关，提示单词与艺术家绘画的物品有关，例如“Still Life”（静物）是当日的spangram，其他单词包括“Jewelry”（珠宝）、“Pitcher”（水壶）、“Fruit”（水果）、“Guitar”（吉他）、“Book”（书）和“Sunflowers”（向日葵）。

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: Paint me a picture

The words are art-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are things artists paint.

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 Still Life.

NYT Strands word list for August 6

Jewelry

Pitcher

Fruit

Still Life

Guitar

Book

Sunflowers

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