Few activities are as rewarding as solving a puzzle: the dopamine rush, that smug sense of achievement post-solve, and that ...

Here’s all of our coverage of news and word games. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to try to finish Connections without throwing my phone into the ocean. Netflix is getting into the daily puzzle ...

Do you feel your brain is going round in circles? Want to get out of automatic mode and really challenge yourself? Good news: ...

The New York Times Games announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a Wordle archive, offering subscribers access to more than 1,000 past Wordle puzzles. The company has started rolling out the Wordle ...

It's hard to believe that it was only in late 2021 that Wordle blew up. The social aspect of sharing results and stickiness of the one-round-per-day format proved to be a winning formula. So it's ...

A new free iPhone game called "Pokemon Friends" brings yet another daily puzzle game to iPhone with plush collecting charm. Available now on the App Store, Pokemon Friends joins the growing wave of ...

Is the December 2, 2025 (#905) edition of NYT Connections proving to be difficult? We’re here with some clues and hints to ...

From Scrabble to Wordle, word puzzle games are a firm favorite amongst gamers, thanks to their mind-training capabilities and the sense of pure elation when you nail your lexicon mastery. So, to help ...

Following the success of Connections and Wordle, the pressure was on for the New York Times to find its next hit game. It didn’t have to look far. Strands, a word search game, is officially joining ...

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