纽约时报推出的Strands是一款创新的文字游戏，它在传统单词搜索的基础上增加了变化。玩家需要连接字母，形成单词，这些单词可以上下左右或对角线连接，甚至可以改变方向。游戏网格中的每个字母都必须属于一个答案。所有答案都围绕一个主题，并且存在一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”，它概括了当天的主题。与Wordle等游戏不同，Strands提供模糊的提示而非单词列表，增加了游戏的挑战性和趣味性，玩家需要更多时间来解谜。

💡 **游戏机制创新**: Strands在经典单词搜索的基础上进行了创新，允许字母连接形成单词，并且单词的路径可以改变方向，增加了游戏的灵活性和趣味性。

🎯 **完全覆盖与主题关联**: 游戏网格中的每一个字母都必须构成一个有效的单词，所有单词都围绕一个特定的主题展开，确保了游戏的整体性和连贯性。

✨ **Spangram的重要性**: 游戏中存在一个特殊的“spangram”，它是一个贯穿整个网格的单词或短语，能够概括当天的游戏主题，是解谜的关键线索。

🤔 **挑战性与提示**: Strands提供模糊的提示而非直接的单词列表，这使得游戏比Wordle等其他纽约时报游戏更具挑战性，需要玩家投入更多时间和精力去思考和发现。

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: That's so sweet!

The words are types of seasonings.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are kinds of sweeteners.

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 Sugary.

NYT Strands word list for September 3

Cube

Turbinado

Powdered

Sugary

Invert

Brown

Granulated

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