You can play Shuffalo every day at NewYorker.com/Shuffalo. Really means a lot, and to everyone at home, maelstrom.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Today, Slate is debuting Pears, a brand ...

Shuffalo is a daily word game from the New Yorker that's a little like the New York Times’s Wordle. But it really feels like an improvement on a different New York Times game—Spelling Bee.

Today, Slate is debuting Pears, a brand-new word game to freshen up your puzzle routine. It’s fast. It’s fun. And it’s got a little attitude. The brainchild of Slate’s Dan Kois, built by a team of ...

“Shuffalo is an anagramming challenge with a twist: your goal is to unscramble a set of letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set. As you play, the words ...

The world of Wordle is expanding: The New York Times Games is launching a “Create Your Wordle Puzzle” feature that will allow ...

In this week’s bonus episode, Dan Kois reveals to co-hosts Julia and Nadira all the secret ingredients that went into Slate’s latest creation: Pears, a new daily word game. They get into the many ...

Glu Mobile has just revealed plans for its first ever game —actually, one of the first ever games — developed exclusively for play on Google Glass. Mobile apps, it appears, are no longer the height of ...

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After being bought last month, Wordle has remained free to play, and promises to stay that way for the foreseeable future.