The Detroit Pistons are 5-2, off to their best start since 2017-18. Here are three things I like so far, and two areas that need to improve.

Wordle continues to unite language lovers across geographies. The game’s simplicity and shareability have led to a surge of global engagement. Players often start their mornings with the puzzle, ...

Google held its inaugural Google Play Awards at its IO developers' conference ...

A new game wants to get a piece of the Wordle action, and it's from The New Yorker. The game, called Shuffalo, sees you trying to make progressively longer words each round until you reach the maximum ...

“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 ...

In Shuffalo, you’ll spell words from scrambled letters, but every time you do, the game adds another letter to spell around. You can find Shuffalo on the publication’s Puzzles and Games page. [Link: ...

The New York Times Games: Puzzle Mania! features an in-depth foreword by author Joel Fagliano alongside an assortment of Mini ...

A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking ...

“Woe unto you, the men who call evil good, and good evil; whose darkness is light, whose light darkness…” (Isaiah 5:20) Even well-intentioned courts and lawmakers stare at so-called Gender-Affirming ...

The NFL announced that Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch was suspended one game without pay for his fight with Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster on Sunday night. "Your aggressive, ...

Seattle Mariners fans are starting to believe this could finally be their year. The sports-crazed Pacific Northwest city's MLB team is two wins away from reaching their first-ever World Series, ...

Taylor Swift made her first high-profile appearance to support Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs this season. Swift is rumored to have attended at least one other Chiefs game this season, but ...