Netflix is getting a daily word game from TED.
“Slide rows of scrambled letters to spell words in this thought-provoking word puzzle game from TED,” according to the App Store description for the new game, TED Tumblewords. Seems like the game is trying to be Netflix’s Wordle.
The new game is set to launch on November 19th on Android and iOS, though you’ll need a Netflix subscription to be able to play it.
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NYT Games is testing Zorse, a new ‘phrase guessing’ puzzle game
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The New York Times is starting to beta test a new puzzle game called “Zorse,” as reported by Semafor. The game is a “new phrase guessing game where every puzzle is a mash-up of two phrases,” NYT spokesperson Jordan Cohen says in a statement to The Verge. As Semafor points out, the Zorse name “identifies the offspring of a zebra and another equine,” so it seems like the game will focus on wordplay like that.
Cohen says Zorse is currently only available in Canada, meaning I can’t play it myself. But my Canada-based colleague Andrew Webster gave it a shot and told me about it; the game sounds a bit like Wheel of Fortune with a puzzle-y twist.
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Now you can suffer through old Connections puzzles.
The New York Times is adding a Connections archive as a benefit for NYT Games and NYT All-Access subscribers. It’s available first for mobile web and desktop and will come to the NYT Games mobile app later this month.
Wordle got a playable archive earlier this year.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Wordle is now available in virtual reality
Wordle now has a native app for Meta Quest so that you can easily play the game in virtual reality. The free app is available for Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, and Meta Quest Pro.
Based on screenshots in a Meta blog post and an NYT video, the game looks like, well, Wordle in VR: you’ll have six attempts to guess a five-letter word. But if you have wanted to play the game in an app on your Quest, that’s now something you can do.
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The NYT’s Connections will now track your winning streak. Or, for me, lack thereof.
I already find Connections, which I look forward to every day, incredibly stressful. But now there’s the added pressure of keeping up a streak, thanks to the new statistics tracked by the game. I already fret enough about my Wordle streak!
This is the pop-up about Connections’ new stats.Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Mini glory.
The New York Times is launching a hall of fame for the Mini Crossword. 25 solvers will get a spot by submitting scores from August 14th and August 21st, and if you make it into the hall of fame, you’ll get a personalized mini trophy that the NYT designed in collaboration with Kazuya Washio.
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The New York Times’ excellent word search game is now in its Games app
Image: The New York Times
Strands, The New York Times’ very good word search game, has been officially added to the NYT’s Games app on iOS and Android.
For me personally, this is huge. Strands has become my favorite of the NYT’s games since it launched in beta in March, but I was annoyed that I had to bounce between the app and a browser to complete my daily Wordle, Connections, and Strands. Now, I can do all of the puzzles right in the app over my morning coffee. It’s the little things!
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It’s no ‘Mr. Bugs’ Wordy Nugz.’
“The I/O Crossword” isn’t anywhere near as zany as Wordle’s original name, but it is awfully cute. Google says it created the crossword with the help of Gemini Advanced and a bunch of its own developer tools. You don’t have to be a developer to join in and help solved the puzzle, but it would probably help — I’m stumped.
You will never guess Wordle’s terrible, hilarious original name
“Mr. Bugs Wordy Nugz.”Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Wordle is a pretty clever name for the very good word game created by Josh Wardle. But when he was first working on it in 2013, Wardle had another name in mind that isn’t quite as catchy.
“This is true: I was going to call Wordle, Mr. Bugs’ Wordy Nugz,” Wardle revealed as part of a presentation about Wordle at Figma’s Config conference on Wednesday. He also showed a slide that spelled out the name in big yellow letters. “Had I called the game Mr. Bugs, I like to think it would not have been successful.”
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LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming
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LinkedIn is now in the gaming business. Starting today, users on the LinkedIn mobile app or on desktop can play one of three different games — Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb. You’ll be able to play each game once per day, and after your daily session, you’ll get access to all kinds of metrics including your high score and daily streak, different leaderboards, and who in your networks has also played. The games are available here under the LinkedIn News and My Network section on desktop or the My Network tab on mobile.
Here’s a brief rundown of the three games.
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If you’re sick of crosswords, check out the new game coming to Apple News Plus.
The Scrabble-esque game Quartiles will arrive with iOS 17.5. Players start with 20 tiles, each with a group of letters, and combine them to form words. The longer the word, the more points you get.
A screenshot of the new Quartiles game on Apple News Plus, via Gadget Hacks.Gadget Hacks/Apple
The New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with legal takedowns
Some developers have already taken down their Wordle clones to avoid a legal battle with The New York Times.Photo by Mike Kemp / In Pictures via Getty Images
Hundreds of games inspired by Wordle, the popular web-based word puzzle, are at risk of being deleted due to copyright takedowns issued by The New York Times. As reported by 404 Media, The New York Times — which purchased Wordle back in 2022 — has filed several DMCA notices over Wordle clones created by GitHub coders, citing its ownership over the Wordle name and copyrighted gameplay including 5x6 tile layout and gray, yellow, and green color scheme.
Two takedown requests were issued in January against unofficial Korean and Bosnian-language versions of the game. Additional requests were filed this week against Wirdle — a variant created by dialect group I Hear Dee in 2022 to promote the Shaetlan language — and Reactle, an open-source Wordle clone built using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind. It was developed prior to the Times’ purchase of the game, according to its developer, Chase Wackerfuss.
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Zach Gage’s Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up
Image: Puzzmo / Angie Wang
The battle over newspaper-style puzzle games is intensifying. Hearst — which publishes the likes of Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle — has announced that it has acquired Puzzmo, a puzzle gaming platform led by indie developers Zach Gage and Orta Therox. The move puts Hearst directly up against the gaming efforts of The New York Times. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a comparison, in 2022 The New York Times acquired Wordle for “an undisclosed price in the low seven figures.”
Puzzmo launched in a limited beta form in October and is billed as a reimagining of the classic newspaper games page. It features a number of notable Gage-designed titles like SpellTower, Really Bad Chess, and Typeshift, along with a streamlined daily crossword puzzle. The site also features community features like leaderboards and multiplayer options. “There’s great stuff out there,” Gage told me in October of the newspaper games space. “But there isn’t this holistic place where people can go and build a community around these games.”
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A printable Puzzmo for the holiday weekend.
Puzzmo, the online platform reimagining classic games, is offering a free mini puzzlebook you can print out and pass around to friends and family members. It’s complete with a hidden words game, a crossword puzzle, chess, and more. It’s a nice little preview of what Puzzmo’s all about, since the platform is still in a limited beta.
Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page
Image: Puzzmo / Angie Wang
For more than a decade, designer Zach Gage has been building an impressive library by reimagining classic games. There have been remixes and updates to everything from chess to solitaire to sudoku, along with inventive word games like Knotwords and SpellTower. But now, as these kinds of games have reached a whole new level of popularity thanks in large part to the explosive success of Wordle, Gage and a small team have been crafting something bigger: a platform called Puzzmo that aims to reinvent the classic newspaper games page by bringing it online.
“There’s great stuff out there,” Gage says of the space. “But there isn’t this holistic place where people can go and build a community around these games.”
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The New York Times now offers daily hints for its Connections word game
Monday’s puzzle was rough — I should have looked at the new hints first.Image: The New York Times
The New York Times will now offer daily hints for Connections, its delightful yet sometimes frustrating daily word game.
In Connections, you’re tasked with finding four sets of associations between 16 words. Each “solution” groups four words together, but the groupings can be tough to figure out. (I only got one correct grouping on Monday’s puzzle.) If you’re stuck, the new Connections Companion offers a difficulty rating (Monday’s was 3.5 out of 5, which I strongly disagree with) and hints you can use to get help without spoiling the entire puzzle.
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The New York Times’ new word game Connections rolls out on mobile
Image: The New York Times
The New York Times’ push into gaming continues as the company is widely launching its next big release: Connections. The game, which has been available in beta since June, is now rolling out basically everywhere the Times games are available. That includes the web, the NYT Games app on both iOS and Android, and “soon,” it will also be available in the “play” tab of the main Times app alongside Wordle, sudoku, and the crossword puzzle.
Connections is essentially a word-matching game. Here’s the official description:
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Apple News Plus is getting crossword puzzles with iOS 17
Image: The Verge
Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 update will add daily crossword puzzles to the Apple News app, but only for News Plus subscribers, the company said on its iOS 17 preview website. The addition of crosswords could make News Plus a more enticing subscription offering — right now, the main benefits to News Plus are access to digital versions of publications and audio versions of some articles.
Interestingly, adding crossword puzzles will put the Apple News app in even closer competition with The New York Times. The NYT is famous for its own crossword puzzles, which you can access in both the main NYT app and NYT Games app, and similar to what’s coming for Apple News, the full NYT crossword is only available in those apps with a paid subscription. However, in the NYT’s apps, you can play other games like the mini crossword and Wordle for free.
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The New York Times’ push into games meant a major change for its crosswords app
Spelling Bee in the NYT Games app. It’s getting archives for paid subscribers.Image: The New York Times
In March, The New York Times made a small but important change to its crosswords app: it dropped the “Crosswords” part of the name in favor of “Games.” It’s a small but important shift that acknowledges how the app has grown from a place to play the crossword into a hub for many of the NYT’s growing library of games.
In addition to the daily crossword, the app now lets you access mini crosswords (“the Mini”), Wordle, a word-spelling game called Spelling Bee, and, as part of some recent updates, sudoku and a visual puzzle game called Tiles. On Tuesday, people who subscribe to the NYT’s Games or All-Access subscriptions will start to get an extra perk: the NYT is rolling out access to the previous two weeks of Spelling Bee puzzles so that subscribers have an archive to chip away at.
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This is what it looks like to be colorblind
Mengxin Li / The Verge
Living with colorblindness feels like you’re constantly being pranked by the world in subtle, irritating ways.
The other day, I was booking a flight on Kayak, trying to figure out which dates are the cheapest by looking at their low fare calendar. See any issues?
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