Now this is a head-scratcher. Wordle, the cognitively stimulating word game from the New York Times, is taking a toll on players’ mental well-being. “My therapist just told me that the NYT word games ...

The popular online word puzzle game Wordle has attracted millions of players in recent weeks. As interest in Wordle grew, The New York Times paid creator Josh Wardle "low seven figures" for the game.

Josh Wardle, a software engineer based in Brooklyn, created the game for his partner, Palak Shah, who loves word puzzles, and named it Wordle as a play on his last name, according to The New York ...

Our columnist went on a journey to try and get very good at the classic crossword game. By Isaac Aronow It started, as so many of my obsessions do, with a YouTube video. The New Yorker posted a ...

Want to be part of the Wordle fun? Here's how to solve Twitter's new favorite daily word game. The internet loves two things: A fresh trend, and word games. Wordle is both, and even has a love story ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

TODAY’S WORD — SLUMLORD (SLUMLORD: SLUM-lord: A landlord who receives profits from poorly maintained properties.) Average mark 15 words Time limit 20 minutes Can you find 19 or more words in SLUMLORD?

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...