From Wordle to Connections, more than 11 billion people played a New York Times game in 2024. Its editorial director of games, Everdeen Mason, joins TODAY to break down this year’s top games.

The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard ...

“Knitting With Dog Hair,” a classic how-to book from the 1990s by Kendall Crolius, fueled a dedicated movement. An updated 30th anniversary edition was published this month. By Rosalie R.

The Naughty Dog studio that players know today wasn’t always Sony’s ace up the sleeve, and it had surprisingly humble beginnings. It was formerly known as JAM software, named after the ...

Animal remains unearthed in Alaska give clues to how wolves were domesticated. By Alexander Nazaryan As the Late Pleistocene ice age drew to a close, people and wolves began to bond. From there ...

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the ...

A very rare Connections for me today, as the first group I got was the purple collection of WORDS BEFORE “DRUM”. I got there after one mistake; I did initially think EAR was linked with VOLUME ...

She roams Brooklyn’s parks and streets in search of prey. It’s not hard to find. By Andy Newman Katie the dog and Sarah Darby entered Prospect Park in Brooklyn beneath a full hunter’s moon.