Strands是一款新颖的单词搜索游戏，与传统玩法不同，玩家可以通过上下左右或对角线连接字母组成单词，甚至可以改变方向，形成独特形状。游戏网格中的每个字母都必须构成一个答案。所有答案都围绕一个主题，并包含一个贯穿整个网格（水平或垂直）的特殊词语或短语——“spangram”，它概括了当天的核心主题。该游戏因提供模糊的提示和不公开单词列表而更具挑战性，旨在提供比Wordle和Connections更长的游戏体验。如果您卡住了或时间有限，本文将提供游戏提示和关键信息，帮助您顺利推进。

💡 Strands游戏的核心玩法在于字母的灵活连接，不仅支持上下左右和对角线，还允许单词方向的改变，增加了游戏的复杂性和趣味性，要求玩家找到所有字母的组合。

🌟 游戏围绕一个明确的主题展开，所有找到的单词都与该主题相关。此外，还有一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”，它以水平或垂直的形式概括了当天的主题，是理解游戏核心的关键。

🤔 Strands游戏通过提供不明确的提示和隐藏单词列表来增加挑战性，玩家需要花费更多时间来解决谜题，这使其区别于Wordle和Connections等其他纽约时报的文字游戏。

🎶 本日Strands游戏的主题与音乐相关，特别是“swing”和“bebop”的王者，提示玩家寻找音乐家相关的词汇，而当日的spangram“Jazz Cats”更是点明了核心主题。

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: Kings of swing and bebop

The words are music-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe popular musicians.

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 Jazz Cats.

NYT Strands word list for August 8

Cannon ball

Dizzy

Count

Jazz cats

Yardbird

Hawk

Staf

Duke

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