GoKawiilIn 2021, Josh Wardle launched the wildly popular word game Wordle. Then in 2022 the New York Times bought the game. If you're unfamiliar with Wordle, it asks players to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have a two-step strategy to help you solve the puzzle every time). After each guess, the game shows gray blocks for the wrong letters, yellow blocks for the right letters in the wrong spot and green blocks for the right letters in the correct spot.
CNET's Gael Cooper has loads of tips and tricks to tackle each NY Times Wordle puzzle. If you've finished your daily Wordle and are still craving a good puzzle game, there are plenty to choose from.
Here are 10 other puzzle games you can play now.
Connections
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Another New York Times-owned puzzle, Connections is a tricky word game. "Players must select four groups of four words without making more than four mistakes," the New York Times wrote on X. There are also four color-coded difficulty levels for each game; yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue and finally purple. The game is also similar to the BBC quiz show Only Connect, and the show's host took to X to point out the connection. See what I did there?
You can play Connections on any web browser but you need a New York Times subscription (which starts at $1 a week) to play.
Strands
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Strands is another New York Times-owned puzzle but this game resembles a word search more so than Wordle and Connections. This game presents a theme every day to help you find words in a grid. In Strands words can appear forward, backward, top-to-bottom or any number of ways in a traditional word search, and words can also form in the shape of an "L" or have a zigzag in them. When you find a word, tap the first letter and drag your finger to the other letters. Every letter in the puzzle is used, so if you still have letters that aren't connected to words, you aren't finished yet.
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