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969 Wordle’s creator is back with a game that aims to ease players into cryptic crosswords

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 03/10/2026 08:59 EDT

Wordle’s creator is back with a game that aims to ease players into cryptic crosswords

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 […]

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