Why You Sometimes See Naughty Words in NYT Games

Puzzle editors choose solutions based on curated references and human judgment. But there’s more freedom in the guesses ...
New York Post

Scrabble adds Gen Z slang ‘yeet’, ‘grammable’ and more to game

Millennial wordsmiths could soon be stumped with the updated Scrabble dictionary as modern Gen Z lingo becomes permissible to use in the board game. In the first major update in four years, Collins — ...
Los Angeles Times

It’s just like Scrabble — except all the words are fake

The Yu family always loved playing word games like Scrabble, but siblings Olive and Adrian had an advantage over their parents, immigrants from Hong Kong. They simply knew more dictionary-approved ...
GamesIndustry

Merriam-Webster acquires word game Quordle

Wordle-like web game Quordle has been acquired by Merriam-Webster, as spotted by our sister site Rock Paper Shotgun. "I can't think of a better home for this game," the Quordle Twitter account said in ...
NPR

Yeehaw, bae: An embiggened Scrabble dictionary cuts slurs and adds words new and old

NEW YORK — Here's the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game's official dictionary: stan, sitch ...