The New York Times games section has seen a surge in popularity, with data for 2024 highlighting its success. The article delves into the performance of popular games like Wordle, Connections, and Spelling Bee, revealing interesting insights into player behavior and game difficulty.
Though its iconic crossword puzzle was first unveiled on Feb. 15, 1942, the New York Times games section has skyrocketed in the past few years — and the data for 2024 proves it.On Oct. 15, the word “corer” stumped millions of people who couldn’t guess the correct answer in six tries.April 23, 2024, was the day that Wordle had its most played game in 2024. The word of that day was “rover.” The 1,000th Wordle puzzle ran in March, and NYT revealed that 2.
8 million people use the same starting word every day with the most popular starting word being “adieu.” Connections — the game where users have to select four groups of four words, finding common threads between words — is the second most-played game behind Wordle, and the most-played puzzle was on April 1.June 20 saw the most difficult Connections and the most shared puzzle was on Jan. 11. The most common mistake for this game was the combination of “bolt,” “nail,” “nut,” and “screw.” Spelling Bee had a total of 535 pangrams in 2024, and the longest pangram was Nationalization on Jan. 8. Over the year, players reached Genius status or higher 154 million times — but only 46 solvers found every pangram in 202
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