LinkedIn has hired three-time world Sudoku champion Thomas Snyder as its first-ever principal puzzlemaster. Snyder has created more than 10,000 puzzles across his career, and intends for LinkedIn ...

Game balances simple mechanics with increasing difficulty throughout the week. LinkedIn Games sees millions of daily players with 86% returning the next day. Patches inspired by the Japanese puzzle ...

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with the 2026 Game Developer Conference underway, ...

After selling his hit puzzle game Wordle to The New York Times in 2022 for an undisclosed price somewhere in the “low seven figures,” Josh Wardle is finally back with a new game. But while Wordle ...

Hamstermind is a puzzler from Righteous Tree Studio, making it their 4th game, but their first PC game. Hamsters are already adorable, and I always love a good puzzler, so playing the game is right up ...

Editor's note: Rate the best and worst 2026 Super Bowl commercials with USA Today's Ad Meter. A kinetic Super Bowl ad starring the YouTube personality MrBeast will launch someone on the path to ...

If Blue Prince taught us anything last year, it's that some of the best games you've never played might be sweet, illustrative-style puzzlers from indie developers. If you've played Blue Prince and ...

Per the description for the new “Candy Crush” game, “Each day, ‘Candy Crush Crushable’ reveals a new level that challenges players to solve a candified puzzle. Players start with a tray of candies and ...

Solve the Crosswords, Connections, Strands and other puzzles that the Games team can’t stop thinking about. By New York Times Games See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de ...

There’s nothing wrong with flexing the Old Grey Matter now and then, right? That’s why we play puzzle games. The satisfaction of overcoming a brain-aching riddle or the sense of gratification that ...

Ten years in the making, puzzle adventure game “Order of the Sinking Star” is set for a 2026 release on PC from Jonathan Blow‘s Thekla and indie publisher Arc Games. The game hails from the creator of ...

Jonathan Blow is one of the most notable names in the indie game scene, with some even labeling him as one of gaming’s auteurs. If you’re relatively new to gaming, you may not be familiar with the ...