Play the Daily New York Times Crossword puzzle edited by Will Shortz online. Try free NYT games like the Mini Crossword, Ken Ken, Sudoku & SET plus our new subscriber-only puzzle Spelling Bee.

Joel Fagliano creates and edits the Mini Crossword. By Deb Amlen The Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Oct. 22, 2009. I was a senior at Julia R. Masterman high school in Philadelphia ...

Wordle is released at midnight in your time zone. In order to accommodate all time zones, there will be two Wordle Reviews ...

Every Spelling Bee puzzle is hand-curated with a wide-ranging audience in mind. Is there a word you want to see included in ...

In Connections, each category has a different difficulty level. Yellow is the simplest, and purple is the most difficult.

Strands is released at midnight in your time zone. To accommodate players around the world, we publish two Strands Sidekicks ...

In the event of crossword trouble, call Dan Caprera.

Each December, New York Times Games puzzle editors reveal their most anticipated puzzles of the year in Puzzle Mania, the annual special section in the print edition of the Sunday paper. Solvers ...

Everdeen Mason, The Times’s first editorial director of Games, wants to keep challenging current players while reaching new ones. “We have to get people out of their comfort zones a little bit.” ...

When was your first New York Times puzzle published? My first Vertex puzzle was published on Feb. 18, 2020, and it was a diamond. What is your first memory of solving a puzzle or playing a game?

Robert Vinluan makes puzzles for Tiles. By Deb Amlen New York City! I was born and raised here. I currently live in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Our Tiles game started in June 2019, so I guess then ...

Milena Correa makes puzzles for Vertex. By Deb Amlen Supported by Demarest, N.J. The first puzzle I made for Vertex was published on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. It was a jar of grape jam that was ...