Strands是纽约时报推出的一款新颖的文字游戏，它在经典单词搜索的基础上进行了创新。玩家需要连接字母来组成单词，这些字母可以上下左右或对角线连接，并且单词可以改变方向，形成独特的形状。游戏 grid 中的每一个字母都必须被使用。所有单词都围绕一个主题，其中还有一个贯穿整个 grid 的“spangram”，它是一个总结主题的特殊单词或短语。Strands通过提供模糊的提示和不提供单词列表，为玩家带来了更具挑战性的游戏体验，游戏时长比Wordle和Connections等游戏更长。

💡 Strands游戏的核心玩法是连接字母组成单词，字母连接可以上下左右、对角线进行，并且单词可以改变方向，形成不规则的形状。游戏要求 grid 中的每一个字母都必须构成一个单词。

🎯 游戏围绕一个特定的主题展开，所有找到的单词都与该主题相关。此外，还有一个特殊的“spangram”，它是一个能够概括主题的单词或短语，并且在 grid 中呈水平或垂直方向贯穿整个 grid。

🧠 Strands游戏通过提供不明确的提示和隐藏单词列表，增加了游戏的难度和趣味性，使玩家需要花费更多时间来思考和破解，这与Wordle和Connections等游戏有所不同。

🔍 游戏提供了一些提示来帮助玩家，例如今天的单词与心理学相关，并且“spangram”是一个垂直的词组“Right Brain”。

🧩 游戏还公布了今日的单词列表，包括 Intuition（直觉）、Creativity（创造力）、Feelings（感受）、Spontaneity（自发性）和 Right Brain（右脑）。

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: Think again!

The words are psychology-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are ways brainpower is used.

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 Right Brain.

NYT Strands word list for August 17

Intuition

Creativity

Feelings

Spontaneity

Right Brain

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