Strands是一款由纽约时报推出的创新文字游戏，它在经典单词搜索的基础上进行了升级。玩家需要连接字母来组成单词，这些单词可以上下、左右、斜向连接，甚至可以改变方向，形成独特的形状。游戏强调网格中的每个字母都必须被使用，并且所有单词都围绕一个核心主题，其中包含一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”来概括主题。由于游戏提供模糊的提示且不直接给出单词列表，Strands比Wordle等游戏更具挑战性，需要玩家花费更多时间去探索。

🌟 Strands是一款升级版的单词搜索游戏，玩家通过连接字母组成单词，字母连接方式包括上下、左右、斜向，并且单词可以改变方向，形成多样的形状。

💡 游戏的核心机制是网格中的每个字母都必须属于一个答案单词，所有单词都围绕一个共同的主题，并有一个特殊的“spangram”单词或短语贯穿整个网格，概括了当天的游戏主题。

🤔 Strands通过提供模糊的提示和不直接列出单词的方式，增加了游戏的脑力挑战性，相比Wordle等游戏，它需要玩家投入更多的时间和思考来完成。

🔑 游戏提供每日更新的主题和线索，例如“Rock solid”主题下的单词描述了“rigidity”（僵硬），而当天的spangram“Hold Fast”则横贯整个网格，指示了游戏的核心概念。

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: Rock solid

The words are loyalty-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe rigidity.

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 Hold Fast.

NYT Strands word list for August 7

Steady

Devoted

Firm

Sound

Hold Fast

Unwavering

Constant

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