Word games are enjoyable because they are simple. There are a variety of word games. You can find words within a massive jumble of letters, unscramble anagrams, or fill in crossword puzzles. You can find all of those experiences, along with some rather ...

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 games trend in a big new way. As part of a bunch of ...

Game designer and conceptual artist Zach Gage loves nothing more than fiddling around with, or trying to optimize, the oldest, most popular, and most ubiquitous games in the world. Previous targets of his tinkering include solitaire, chess, pool, and sudoku.

Our columnist went on a journey to try and get very good at the classic crossword game. By Isaac Aronow It started, as so many of my obsessions do, with a YouTube video. The New Yorker posted a roughly nine-minute video titled “Professional Scrabble ...

Unless you’re a fencing aficionado, you might be unfamiliar with this word that frequently shows up in crossword puzzle answers. It’s the term for the practice sword used in competitive dueling that has a protective, blunted knob on the end. Look for ...

Game designer Sam Von Ehren has a problem: He knows he’s always going to play second fiddle. “We live in the shadow of the crossword,” Von Ehren told Polygon in a recent phone interview. In May 2018, the Times expanded the section — which requires ...