A few years after selling Wordle to the New York Times, creator Josh Wardle has returned with a new word game – albeit one that’s quite a bit trickier. Wardle and a team of collaborators have just released Parseword, a game that tries to make cryptic crosswords easier to understand. “Cryptics are beautiful and rich puzzles but are notoriously hard to learn,” the site’s about page explains. “We wanted to make a game that captures the joy of solving cryptics while making them more accessible to everyone.”
In a profile in the New Yorker, Wardle explained that he struggled with viral success of Wordle and the attention that followed, but he fou …
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