There’s a lot of interest in daily puzzle games right now. The New York Times has a great collection of games like its crossword, Wordle, Connections, and Strands. Apple is in the mix with crosswords and more in Apple News Plus. Zach Gage’s puzzle gaming platform Puzzmo has some fun twists on classic games and was acquired by Hearst. Even LinkedIn has games now, and it turns out that they’re actually good.

Sure, the games are fun, but they can also be reliable ways for the companies that offer them to make money from subscriptions. The New York Times puts a some features for its games behind a paywall. Apple’s games are only available to Apple News Plus subscribers. And Netflix is launching a daily word game to bolster its paid subscription for mobile games.

Here’s all of our coverage of news and word games. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to try to finish Connections without throwing my phone into the ocean.

• S-Tier.
• Samsung’s daily trivia game is coming to phones.
• A Strands archive has shut down because of an NYT DMCA takedown notice.
• One free Connections archive: gone.
• The New York Times is trying to shut down a popular Connections puzzle creator
• Words With Friends takes on Wordle with new single-player daily puzzles
• NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike
• Striking NYT tech workers made a custom Connections so you don’t cross the picket line
• A meditative take on sudoku that changes with the weather
• Good morning sports fans.
• Daily sudoku is coming to Apple News Plus.
• Netflix is getting a daily word game from TED.
• NYT Games is testing Zorse, a new ‘phrase guessing’ puzzle game
• Now you can suffer through old Connections puzzles.
• Wordle is now available in virtual reality
• The NYT’s Connections will now track your winning streak. Or, for me, lack thereof.
• Mini glory.
• This online puzzle community has a fresh twist on battle passes
• The New York Times’ excellent word search game is now in its Games app
• It’s no ‘Mr. Bugs’ Wordy Nugz.’
• You will never guess Wordle’s terrible, hilarious original name
• I regret to inform you that LinkedIn’s games are very fun
• LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming
• If you’re sick of crosswords, check out the new game coming to Apple News Plus.
• The New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with legal takedowns
• Zach Gage’s Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up
• A printable Puzzmo for the holiday weekend.
• Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page
• The New York Times now offers daily hints for its Connections word game
• The New York Times’ new word game Connections rolls out on mobile
• Apple News Plus is getting crossword puzzles with iOS 17
• The New York Times’ push into games meant a major change for its crosswords app
• Chasing rainbows
• How Wordle lives on at The New York Times
• Merriam-Webster acquires popular Wordle clone, Quordle
• Now Wordle has an editor in charge of picking the next answer
• Wordle snags a place inside the New York Times Crossword app
• Wordle’s upgraded Wordlebot has a new recommended starting word
• Wordle is being turned into a multiplayer board game
• The New York Times is fixing one of Wordle’s most annoying problems
• Buying Wordle brought ‘tens of millions of new users’ to The New York Times
• Knotwords mashes Wordle with crossword puzzles
• You might see an ad after you finish today’s Wordle
• NYT’s new WordleBot tries to gamify something that probably doesn’t need it
• New York Times pressures ‘unauthorized’ Wordle Archive into shutting down
• Heardle is like Wordle for pop music
• Wordle rip-offs are running rampant on the App Store again
• How to fix your NY Times-based Wordle if it isn’t working
• The New York Times has changed Wordle’s solutions
• No, The New York Times did not make Wordle harder
• Wordle players, fear not: The New York Times says the ‘vast majority’ of win streak stats have now been carried over
• The New York Times runs Wordle now, and stats are getting m-e-s-s-y
• Wordle will be free forever because you can right-click to save the whole game
• Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will ‘initially’ remain free for everyone to play
• Twitter suspends Wordle-ruining bot
• How to play Wordle
• Wordle! and Wardle team up to donate proceeds from an unrelated app’s popularity spike
• The real beauty of Wordle is how its emoji results tell a story
• The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store
• The App Store clones are here to profit off Wordle’s success
• Done your Wordle for the day? Try out these spoofs instead
• NYT crossword puzzle no longer works in third-party apps, crosses puzzle solvers
• The New York Times’ crossword can now haunt your living room in augmented reality
• PSA: collaborative NYT crosswords return to Twitch over the holiday weekend
• Soothe your election nerves by solving crossword puzzles together on Twitch
• The New Yorker adds co-op to its online crossword puzzles
• The story behind The New York Times’ largest and most ambitious crossword puzzle