Anyone who plays games is familiar with the sense of satisfaction that comes with solving a tricky puzzle, but getting validation from other solvers can be just as intoxicating. Wouldn’t it be less fun to solve Wordle in two turns if you couldn’t share your score?
Enter Wordle Review, Connections Companion, Wordplay and the Spelling Bee Forum. They’re our dedicated online spaces for people to talk about the games. We view these as places where casual and dedicated players can discuss the games and forge relationships with one another.
On the Games desk, we consider your comments to be as valuable a part of the solving experience as the game itself. Here’s everything you need to know to get started as a member of the New York Times Games community.
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How to participate: Read through the column to get a glimpse of what to expect from the day’s Crossword. Then head to the comments to chat about the puzzle and flag any clues that might have stumped you.
Join if you:
- like Oreos, Oslo and emus
- are your trivia team’s secret weapon
- don’t mind locking horns with grammar nerds
Wordplay, the companion to the daily Crossword, was the original game forum, designed to hold your hand through puzzle solving. Jim Horne, a longtime crossword blogger, started it in October 2008, but Deb Amlen’s voice and presence shaped the column our readers have returned to day after day for the past 13 years. Solvers used the comments section in Wordplay as a place to share their Spelling Bee hints, and in 2021 Everdeen Mason and Jackie Frere created the Spelling Bee Forum to give them more space to chat, commiserate and help one another solve the puzzle.
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