PHILADELPHIA -- "Guys, I am obsessed with Wordle." "Can't stop. Won't stop." These are just some of the things being said by players of the game Wordle. It's a free word game. The mission is to guess ...

TODAY’S WORD — FREESTYLE (FREESTYLE: FREE-stile: A competition in which the contestant is given more freedom of choice than in related events.) Average mark 24 words Time limit 50 minutes Can you find ...

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Josh Wardle, a software engineer based in Brooklyn, created the game for his partner, Palak Shah, who loves word puzzles, and named it Wordle as a play on his last name, according to The New York ...

It’s not all that often that word games are bobbing near the top of the Steam charts. Word Play has been hovering near the top of the Popular New Releases since it was launched earlier this month and ...

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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 ...

Josh Wardle is the inventor of a free online word game you just might be familiar with. (If you change one letter in his last name, you’ll get the name of the game.) Back in October, the ...