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1. www.nytimes.com › games › wordleWordle - The New York Times

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   Play Wordle, the popular free word puzzle game with no ads, and compare your performance with other players.

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     In 2014, we introduced The Mini Crossword — followed by...

2. www.nytimes.com › spotlight › wordle-reviewWordle Review - The New York Times

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   5 days ago · Wordle Review No. 1,230. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Oct. 31, 2024. By New York Times Games.

3. www.eurogamer.net › a-world-beyond-wordle-howA world beyond Wordle: how games became a big deal at the New ...

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   Apr 2, 2023 · 5 comments. Follow Wordle. It's strange to think that for a moment in 2022, the New York Times, one of the most prestigious and respected news brands on the planet, became a global media story...

   • Author: Keith Stuart

   • Occupation: Contributor

4. www.cnet.com › culture › internetBeyond Wordle: The New York Times Games Section, Explained

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   • Wordle
   • Spelling Bee
   • The Mini Crossword
   • Letter Boxed
   • Vertex
   • Tiles
   • The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
   • How Much Is A New York Times Games subscription?

   The Times announced it acquired Wordleat the end of January, for an undisclosed sum in the "low seven figures." On the off chance you've never played, the immensely popular word game gives you six chances to guess a five-letter word. If the right letter is in the right spot, it shows up in a green box, while a correct letter in the wrong spot shows...

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   Outside of the daily crossword puzzle, Spelling Beehas the most devout following, with a daily column by Isaac Aronow and more than 600 comments a day on average. It's easy to learn the gamebut tough to master it: Each puzzle features a seven-cell honeycomb, with six letters arranged around a seventh in the center. Players simply come up with as ma...

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   Sometimes you don't have the time, energy or gray matter to work on a full-blown New York Times crossword puzzle. Since 2014, the Times has offered an easier, smaller puzzle, designed by cruciverbalist Joel Fagliano, now digital puzzle editor at the Times. The Miniis an amuse-bouche of a crossword, with a simple five-by-five grid Sunday through Fri...

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   Launched in 2019, Letter Boxed, like Spelling Bee, relies more on vocabulary than knowledge of trivia: Three letters are featured on each side of a square and players must connect the letters to make words that are at least three letters long. The final letter of one word becomes the first letter of the next. The catch, though, is that letters on t...

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   Eschewing words altogether, Vertex is an interactive version of a tangram, a Chinese geometric puzzle, that allows users to connect dots to create triangles that ultimately form a larger image. "At its core, a vertex puzzle is a drawing game with a logic component," according to an article on the Times website. The number on a dot indicates how man...

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   The Times debuted Tiles, its first nonword game, in June 2019. It's a high-concept, artfully designed take on the classic tile game Mahjong solitaire. Instead of Chinese characters and symbols, though, users try to match squares featuring intricate patterns -- some are inspired by hand-painted Portuguese Azulejo tiles, others by the work of 1970s O...

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   The main draw for Games subscribers is online access to the venerable New York Times crossword puzzle that you can solve on your phone. Not just the current puzzle, but the daily archives going back to November 1993. Subscribers also get access to the new crossword the evening before it appears in print. The app version of the Times puzzle has an a...

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   Distinct from the main Times subscription, a New York Times Games digital subscriptioncosts $5 a month or $40 for a year, and includes Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, Tiles, Vertex and the daily crossword puzzle. The Times offers the Mini and the logic puzzle Sudoku for free to nonsubscribers. For now, Wordle will also be free for nonsubscribers. Read ...

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   • Author: Dan Avery

   • Occupation: Former Writer

5. www.tomsguide.com › news › new-york-times-killedNew York Times killed Wordle Archive - Tom's Guide

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   Mar 17, 2022 · The Times has largely left unofficial Wordle sites alone since buying the game for a reported six-figure sum last month, but as spotted by Ars Technica, it's now requested that the Wordle...

6. www.vanityfair.com › news › inside-the-new-yorkInside The New York Times’ Big Bet on Games | Vanity Fair

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   Dec 19, 2023 · As it turns out, they already had a hit: Connections, a word-association game first pitched during Game Jam in 2021, along with the numbers-based game Digits, which was tabled when Wordle...

7. www.bbc.com › news › business-60208463Wordle inventor 'overwhelmed' as New York Times buys game - BBC

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   Feb 1, 2022 · The inventor of word game sensation Wordle has spoken of being overwhelmed by its success, following a sale to the New York Times (NYT). Software engineer Josh Wardle released the free simple...