本文介绍了纽约时报新款文字游戏Strands的玩法。与传统单词搜索不同，Strands允许字母连接成词，方向可变，且网格中所有字母都必须构成答案。游戏围绕一个主题展开，并包含一个贯穿整个网格的“spangram”来概括主题。Strands因其不提供单词列表和提供模糊提示，游戏时间较长，旨在提供更具挑战性的体验。文章还提供了当日游戏的主题提示、主题解释以及“spangram”线索和答案，并列出了当日的单词列表，帮助玩家快速上手或解决难题。

🃏 Strands是一款创新的文字游戏，它将经典单词搜索与更灵活的字母连接方式相结合。玩家需要寻找由连续字母组成的词语，这些字母可以朝任何方向（上、下、左、右、对角线）连接，并且可以改变方向，这使得单词的形状更加多样化。

🎯 游戏的核心机制在于网格中的所有字母都必须被使用，且都属于某个答案词。此外，所有答案词都围绕一个共同的主题，并且存在一个特殊的“spangram”，这是一个贯穿整个网格（水平或垂直）的词语或短语，它概括了当天的游戏主题。

💡 Strands通过提供模糊的提示而非直接列出单词，营造了一种更具挑战性的游戏体验，玩家可能需要花费更多时间来解谜。文章提供了当日游戏的具体主题线索，如“Hit the deck!”，并进一步解释主题为“与游戏相关的词语”，特别是“赌场游戏”。

🔍 游戏还提供了一个“spangram”的提示，指出其方向（例如，当日为水平方向），并直接给出了当日的“spangram”答案：“In the Cards”。最后，文章列出了当日游戏所需的全部单词列表，包括“Clubs”、“Hearts”、“Spades”、“Diamonds”、“Jack”、“Queen”、“King”，帮助玩家完成挑战。

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 preferred pace.

Today's NYT Strands puzzle should be easy to solve, provided that you're not talkative.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Hit the deck!

The words are related to games.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe casino games.

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 In the Cards.

NYT Strands word list for September 28

Clubs

Hearts

Spades

Diamonds

In The Cards

Jack

Queen

King

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