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1 week agoSong Of The Puzzlesmith, With Ian Livengood | Defector
Silly morning puzzles stretch cognition and inspire creative game design, including new crossword creation for changing knowledge levels.
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2 months agoCompetitive Scrabble Is A Lexical Shitshow | Defector
Under an oak-beamed ceiling on the top floor of one of Washington, D.C.'s coolest museums, Planet Word, more than 90 kids gathered last April to vie for $5,000 and youth Scrabble bragging rights. The North American School Scrabble Championship is serious business. The No. 1 high-school seed was ranked in the top 150 of all players in the U.S. and Canada.
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fromThe Verge
2 months agoWordle's creator is back with a game that aims to ease players into cryptic crosswords
Cryptics are beautiful and rich puzzles but are notoriously hard to learn. We wanted to make a game that captures the joy of solving cryptics while making them more accessible to everyone.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 months agoThe Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here
The day Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times, in 2022, for more than a million dollars, should have been a moment of triumph. The game, which gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word, had unexpectedly become a global sensation, and Wardle had already begun to receive e-mails from puzzle designers seeking his input on their own ideas.
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