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Articles tagged Wordle (8)

“I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning.”
“Some subscribers would rather game than sift through the wreckage. Can you blame them?”
“They get nothing out of it except a primitive sort of mental exercise.”
The viral game — which you can currently play without paying or registering or even seeing an ad — will stay free…for now.
NYT Games editorial director Everdeen Mason on building a more diverse set of puzzle constructors and an “ecosystem” for solvers. “I don’t want people to just come in and play a game and leave.”
The New York Times senior software architect would like the newest “mullets of the Internet” to go back from whence they came.
September 17, 2010
January 6, 2010