I absolutely love the NYT games! I play them every day at lunch as a sweet little ritual with my friends, and I thought it would be a fun idea to see if anyone else on Flight Rising was looking for a NYT Games hub like I was.
For those browsing but not familiar with the games:
- The Mini: A crossword, usually around ten-ish clues of shorter words, meant to be completed in about a minute or so.
- Connections: 16 words are placed on a 4x4 grid. Each set of 4 words has something in common, and you group those words together.b
- Wordle: You're given 6 attempts to guess a 5-letter word. For each attempt, you're told if you've got the right letter and whether or not it's in the right place.
- The Strands: You're given a theme and a word-search-esque board of letters. You attempt to find words relating to the theme within the board.
I think my personal favorite is the Strands, followed by the Connections and then the Mini. I'm not a big Wordle fan and I don't subscribe for the big crossword/Spelling Bee, but I don't really think that either are my taste anyway.
Spoiler for 04/23 strands: ||I repeatedly spelled ingredients like "ingredience" and was so, so confused for a while. For one, it was saying that I was spelling it wrong - which I was, of course, but I thought it had to do with all the random vowels in the middle lol. Not only that, this was clearly the spanagram but it didn't span all the way across - it went from the bottom to the side. Anyway, I had to show a friend who laughed at me for a while until correcting my spelling mistake. Whoops.||
For those browsing but not familiar with the games:
- The Mini: A crossword, usually around ten-ish clues of shorter words, meant to be completed in about a minute or so.
- Connections: 16 words are placed on a 4x4 grid. Each set of 4 words has something in common, and you group those words together.b
- Wordle: You're given 6 attempts to guess a 5-letter word. For each attempt, you're told if you've got the right letter and whether or not it's in the right place.
- The Strands: You're given a theme and a word-search-esque board of letters. You attempt to find words relating to the theme within the board.
I think my personal favorite is the Strands, followed by the Connections and then the Mini. I'm not a big Wordle fan and I don't subscribe for the big crossword/Spelling Bee, but I don't really think that either are my taste anyway.
Spoiler for 04/23 strands: ||I repeatedly spelled ingredients like "ingredience" and was so, so confused for a while. For one, it was saying that I was spelling it wrong - which I was, of course, but I thought it had to do with all the random vowels in the middle lol. Not only that, this was clearly the spanagram but it didn't span all the way across - it went from the bottom to the side. Anyway, I had to show a friend who laughed at me for a while until correcting my spelling mistake. Whoops.||
