纽约时报推出的Strands游戏是一款创新的文字解谜游戏，它在经典单词搜索的基础上进行了创新。玩家需要连接相邻的字母（上下左右或对角线），且单词可以改变方向，形成独特的形状。游戏要求网格中的每一个字母都必须是某个答案的一部分。所有答案都围绕一个主题，其中“spangram”是一个贯穿整个网格（水平或垂直）的特殊词语或短语，概括了当天的核心主题。Strands通过提供不直接的线索和隐藏单词列表，创造了一种更具挑战性的解谜体验，比Wordle等游戏需要更长的时间来完成。

🎯 Strands游戏的核心机制在于连接字母形成单词，这些单词可以是水平、垂直、对角线方向，并且可以改变方向，形成不规则的形状，与传统单词搜索有所不同。

💡 游戏强调网格中每个字母都必须被使用，构成某个答案的一部分，这增加了游戏的完整性和挑战性。

🌟 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，并且存在一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”，它概括了当天的整体主题。

⏳ 与Wordle等游戏相比，Strands通过不直接提供单词列表和线索，提供了一种更具思考性的游戏体验，通常需要玩家花费更多时间来完成。

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: Up the hill

The words are song-related.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are found in a classic nursery rhyme.

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 Jack and Jill.

NYT Strands word list for August 30

Tumbling

Water

Fetch

Jack and Jill

Broke

Pail

After

Crown

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