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Apparently, the very idea of colorblindness is hard to visualize. Take a shot at looking through my eyes.
The excellent puzzle gaming site has slowly been growing with new games and social features, and soon it’s getting a much-requested feature: a mobile app. It’s coming on May 19th for iPhone users, and you can pre-download it right here.
Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page
The New York Times Games’s Wordle editor, Tracy Bennett, announced that today, May 6th, is the “inaugural” Wordle Day (five letters in a Wordle word + six guesses to play = 5/6), and Bennett put together a series of puzzles you can play competitively with your friends as “Wordle Golf.”
Seems fun, but if a full round of golf is too much, you can also just compare scores on the new leaderboard.
[nytimes.com]
The NYT Games app is getting leaderboards for Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, and the Mini Crossword, according to a press release. The rollout of the leaderboards will take place “over the next few weeks.”
Words With Friends is getting a new daily, single-player puzzle game called Letter Lock. In the game, you’ll slide letters up and down columns to spell words, and the more words you spell, the more columns you’ll unlock.
Seems like it could be a fun addition to your daily puzzle game routine.
The online gaming operation that also houses a newspaper noted a small correction in today’s Mini Crossword puzzle. It could’ve thrown daily puzzle game players off when it previously asked them to name a Halloween costume with “suspenders” instead of Mario’s overalls.
As you connect numbered dots across a grid, Zip challenges you to fill in each square along the way. It joins LinkedIn’s wider lineup of daily games, which are, admittedly, pretty fun.
The New York Times’ Spelling Bee puzzle is celebrating its 2,500th edition today. To mark the occasion, today’s puzzle is the first with the letter S, which should open up a lot of fun possibilities for words. Try it here.
The Six, which launched in June on Samsung Smart TVs, is launching today in the Samsung News app on Galaxy phones.
Here’s Samsung’s description of the game, if you’re interested:
The Six offers daily trivia challenges where players compete by answering six questions on topics ranging from entertainment to world history, with faster correct answers earning higher scores.
[Samsung U.S. Newsroom]
A Strands-maker website had also hosted an archive of The New York Times’ Strands puzzles, but the archive is gone now. The DMCA notice, which has been viewed by The Verge, was shared with the developer of the website yesterday.
Last month, I reported that the NYT sent a cease and desist letter to have an unauthorized Connections archive removed.
After receiving a cease and desist letter from The New York Times, the owner of a Connections creator that also had a full archive of the NYT’s puzzles has removed it. You can still make puzzles on the site and play other creations, if you want.
As part of its burgeoning lineup of games, the New York Times has just released a new version of Connections, this one focused entirely on sports trivia from The Athletic. Because everyone is getting in on daily games, the NHL also recently launched its own Connections-style game called Lines, which, obviously, is full of hockey-themed puzzles.
[www.nytimes.com]
The sudoku puzzles are part of iOS 18.2 in the US, as reported by MacRumors. There are three difficulty levels you can pick from.
The new puzzles join the app’s crossword, mini crossword, and a Scrabble-like game called Quartiles.
“Slide rows of scrambled letters to spell words in this thought-provoking word puzzle game from TED,” according to the App Store description for the new game, TED Tumblewords. Seems like the game is trying to be Netflix’s Wordle.
The new game is set to launch on November 19th on Android and iOS, though you’ll need a Netflix subscription to be able to play it.
The New York Times is adding a Connections archive as a benefit for NYT Games and NYT All-Access subscribers. It’s available first for mobile web and desktop and will come to the NYT Games mobile app later this month.
Wordle got a playable archive earlier this year.
