NYT, Wordle
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Some of these word games are challenging while others are more casual.
That number was whittled down to 2,309 by the NYT after it bought Wordle in January 2022, and then increased by an unknown amount over the next couple of years, with the addition of solutions such as SNAFU (game #659) and OOMPH (#1662).
The Times’ popular Games unit is debuting Crossplay, a Scrabble-like electronic feature that represents its first designed multiplayer game. It becomes the website’s 11th game, joining a lineup of puzzles that were collectively played over 11.2 billion times in 2025.
The popular New York Times game Wordle left a lot of players stumped and frustrated on the Friday before Christmas with an unusual answer. Early-bird fans of the word-guessing game turned quickly to social media to voice their many concerns. Wordle is a ...