From Scrabble to Wordle, word puzzle games are a firm favorite amongst gamers, thanks to their mind-training capabilities and the sense of pure elation when you nail your lexicon mastery. So, to help ...

Wordle has grown to be one of the most popular words games since Josh Wardle launched it in 2021. The game asks players to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have a two-step ...

Wordiness is fun, isn’t it? Especially Scrabble, where at one point, it will make you question everything about your intellect. That’s the power of word games; they are easy and yet can be very ...

Word games are oozing with reasons for people to love them: they're quick and relatively easy to play, and they quench a dormant thirst to solve a puzzle. Josh Wardle, a software engineer, knew his ...

People across the world wake up, or stay up until midnight, with one thing on their mind: the new Wordle of the day. The online game is simple. You have six guesses to figure out that day's ...

Word games are enjoyable because they are simple. There are a variety of word games. You can find words within a massive jumble of letters, unscramble anagrams, or fill in crossword puzzles. You can ...

Dan was a writer on CNET's How-To and Thought Leadership teams. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, NBC News, Architectural Digest and elsewhere. He is a crossword junkie and is ...

Mark Serrels is an award-winning Senior Editorial Director focused on all things culture. He covers TV, movies, anime, video games and whatever weird things are happening on the internet. He ...

The rising popularity of Wordle, the latest online word game, challenges players to guess a five-letter word in six moves through a combination of guesswork, logic, and vocabulary skill. You begin ...

A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his emotions.

The popular online word puzzle game Wordle has attracted millions of players in recent weeks. As interest in Wordle grew, The New York Times paid creator Josh Wardle "low seven figures" for the game.