It’s the dead of winter, and the days can feel so routine. To the rescue is Wordle — a daily quest to decipher one five-letter word that is sweeping the nation. The internet word game craze (five ...

TODAY’S WORD — HILARIOUS (HILARIOUS: hih-LER-ee-us: Extremely funny.) Average mark 29 words Time limit 40 minutes Can you find 38 or more words in HILARIOUS? The list will be published Monday.

For the past week, my family and I have started a new text message thread. It’s a sacred space. Each message is typically three words long, something like “Wordle in three.” Yes, like plenty of others ...

Trying to game Wordle isn't my bag, I'll admit. My ideal daily Wordle session starts with me plucking a legible five-letter combination out from my stream of consciousness and seeing where that random ...

According to a lovely New York Times profile of Wordle creator and software engineer Josh Wardle (get it?), he devised the game as a gift for his partner Palak Shah, who loves word games and crossword ...

A new word game just dropped, and this one looks pretty fun. Strands is a new game from the New York Times, the same people who brought you Connections and Spelling Bee. (The NYT is also the current ...

Josh Wardle is the inventor of a free online word game you just might be familiar with. (If you change one letter in his last name, you’ll get the name of the game.) Back in October, the ...

Stretch your lexicon with this library of brainteasers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To celebrate the second coming of the ...

The New York Times Games team discusses its creative process. By Elie Levine As of June 26, Strands has been officially added to the New York Times Games portfolio. Attention all Connections fiends, ...

Wordiness is fun, isn’t it? Especially Scrabble, where at one point, it will make you question everything about your intellect. That’s the power of word games; they are easy and yet can be very ...

For the last few months, Ryan Jones’ Guess My Word has offered a simple, albeit not always painless, way to breeze through downtime at work. It works in your browser, and it’s pretty simple: guess a ...

My task for our AI overlords was simple: help me crack the New York Times Spelling Bee. I had spent a large chunk of a Saturday evening trying to shape the letters G, Y, A, L, P, O and N into as many ...