Word games are enjoyable because they are simple. There are a variety of word games. You can find words within a massive jumble of letters, unscramble anagrams, or fill in crossword puzzles. You can ...

A couple of weeks ago, I started noticing people posting curious grids of green and yellow squares on their Twitter timelines. After ignoring them for a couple of days, thinking Wordle was probably ...

Wordle’s sudden rise in popularity is perhaps one of the strangest cases of a game going viral. The simple word-guessing game had been going for a while before it began to truly pick up steam, but ...

A simple word game has taken the internet by storm. Ian Bogost, game designer and director of the film and media studies program at Washington University in St. Louis. (@ibogost) Katy Pearce, ...