Today, Slate is debuting Pears, a brand-new word game to freshen up your puzzle routine. It’s fast. It’s fun. And it’s got a little attitude. The brainchild of Slate’s Dan Kois, built by a team of ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Today, Slate is debuting Pears, a brand ...

Dave’s Word Game (known as DWG by fans) is a new daily word game, where you must strategically use your best words to maximise your score every day. Another wonderful mix of indie games from genres ...

The actress and comedian describes how to play the anagram challenge. Shuffalo is a word scramble game with a twist. Your goal is to make a word out of the letters provided, but every time you make a ...

We’re delighted to introduce our brand new puzzle, Mini Cogs. As you might have guessed from its name, Mini Cogs is a smaller version of our new puzzle, Cogs: a unique twist on a word game that blends ...

“Shuffalo is an anagramming challenge with a twist: your goal is to unscramble a set of letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set. As you play, the words ...

Shuffalo is a new word game from the New Yorker. You need to make a word from the provided letters, using each letter once. A letter is added each round, starting with four and ending with a bonus ...

In this week’s bonus episode, Dan Kois reveals to co-hosts Julia and Nadira all the secret ingredients that went into Slate’s latest creation: Pears, a new daily word game. They get into the many ...

Glu Mobile has just revealed plans for its first ever game —actually, one of the first ever games — developed exclusively for play on Google Glass. Mobile apps, it appears, are no longer the height of ...

TODAY’S WORD — LOGISTICS (LOGISTICS: lo-JIS-tiks: The handling of the details of an operation.) Average mark 21 words Time limit 30 minutes Can you find 27 or more words in LOGISTICS? The list will be ...