![]() ![]() Is scrambling your strong suit? Play the daily Spelling Bee and see how many words you can make with 7 letters. See if you can guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less. ![]() Play the original Wordle - created by Josh Wardle - in our app. There are never any ads to disrupt the fun in The New York Times Games app, so you can play without distraction. Free to download, the app offers new puzzles daily for every skill level. And, to receive our offerings, be sure to sign up for the Puzzles & Games Newsletter.Įnjoy your daily dose-we hope it doesn’t keep you up at night-and happy solving.Keep your mind sharp with word and logic puzzles from New York Times Games. For questions about our puzzles and games offerings, try our F.A.Q., or drop us an e-mail. If you solve on your phone, the New Yorker app, available exclusively to subscribers, offers the best experience. If you’re hungry for more games, you can also play our trivia quiz, Name Drop, every weekday, and do the cryptic crossword every Sunday. ![]() Gorski, Natan Last, Wyna Liu, Aimee Lucido, Caitlin Reid, Anna Shechtman, and Robyn Weintraub. For the themeless crosswords, we welcome three new recruits-Brooke Husic, Will Nediger, and Paolo Pasco-to our esteemed lineup they join Erik Agard, Patrick Berry, Kameron Austin Collins, Elizabeth C. Our themed crosswords will be constructed by a rotation of experts, many of whom will make their New Yorker débuts in the coming months. (In crossword lingo, squares that can hold multiple letters are called rebuses if you’re confident that the “Big Little Lies” actress with multiple Teen Choice Awards is SHAILENE WOODLEY, but her name doesn’t fit into the grid, that’s a sign you might be dealing with a rebus puzzle.) Other common types of theme-puzzle trickery include letter substitutions, telltale grid art, homonyms, and all manner of puns. The twist is that each instance of N-E-W must be written or typed into a single square-in this case, into one of the squares inscribed with a “ring,” per the title. Often, there’s a twist, hinted at by the puzzle’s title, or by a “revealer” clue within-in the puzzle “ Ring in the New,” for example, which we published last year, every themed answer contains (spoiler alert) the letters N-E-W. Themed crosswords are puzzles in which several answers, usually the longest across entries, have something in common. You’ll also find something new on Fridays: a themed puzzle, of light-to-moderate difficulty. ![]() Mondays through Thursdays, we’ll publish themeless puzzles that decrease in difficulty throughout the week, with a new beginner-friendly puzzle on Thursdays. You can now solve a new crossword every weekday, Monday through Friday, on our Web site or in our app. So we hope this announcement triggers no moral panic: The New Yorker Crossword is expanding. The latest gaming craze, Wordle, came with an adorable origin story-evidence against the theory that puzzles lead to domestic strife-and served as a reminder that, once in a while, the Internet can give us something nice. If anything, word games have enjoyed a wave of newfound appreciation during the pandemic, serving up social-distancing-friendly entertainment and doses of cheer amid the Weltschmerz. Headlines in the Times blamed the new pastime for everything from eyestrain to divorce (“ CROSSWORD MANIA BREAKS UP HOMES”) a spread in the Evening Star warned against puzzle-induced insomnia and the Cincinnati Post even attributed a murder-suicide to a man “driven to madness by crossword puzzles.”Ī century later, crosswords rank low on most lists of national menaces. When a vogue for crosswords first swept the nation, in the nineteen-twenties, certain pundits saw cause for alarm. ![]()
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