You can play Shuffalo every day at NewYorker.com/Shuffalo. Really means a lot, and to everyone at home, maelstrom.

How to Play Alphadots? Alphadots has quickly become a favorite among puzzle enthusiasts in 2025, with thousands of players taking part in the daily challenge. According to recent game data, over 80% ...

How was your Wordle today? Mine was rough, to say the least. Wordle — a once-a-day guessing game that asks users to identify a five-letter word in six tries — has taken the internet by storm since ...

It's a free word game. The mission is to guess a five-letter word in six tries or less. After each guess, the tiles change colors. Green means it's the right letter and it's in the right spot. Yellow ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Wordle has taken the world by storm, combining simple-to-understand gameplay with challenging tests of a player's vocabulary. Ever since its meteoric ...

Word games are oozing with reasons for people to love them: they're quick and relatively easy to play, and they quench a dormant thirst to solve a puzzle. Josh Wardle, a software engineer, knew his ...

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 ...

Board Games I didn't expect this new board game to become my summer obsession, but now I've dropped everything else Roguelike Games Word Play is a spelling roguelike that feels like the final boss of ...

HQ’s expansion beyond trivia is emerging from beta, but the question is whether it’s different and accessible enough to revive the startup’s growth. HQ Words opens to everyone today with games at ...