Josh Wardlelaunched the wildly popular word gameWordlemore than five years ago in 2021. Then the New York Times bought the game a year later in 2022. The rules to Wordle are pretty straightforward. You have to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have atwo-step strategy to help you solve the puzzle every time). After each guess, the game shows gray blocks for the wrong letters, yellow blocks for the right letters in the wrong spot and green blocks for the right letters in the correct spot.

CNET’sGael Cooperhas loads of tips and tricks to tackle each NY Times Wordle puzzle. If you’ve finished your daily Wordle and are still craving a good puzzle game, there are plenty to choose from.

Here are 10 other puzzle games you can play now for a fun challenge.

Connections

I know it’s old but I’m not even going to try to figure this out.

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Another New York Times-owned puzzle,Connectionsis a tricky word game. “Players must select four groups of four words without making more than four mistakes,” the New York Timeswrote on X. There are also four color-coded difficulty levels for each game; yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue and finally purple. The game is also similar to the BBC quiz show Only Connect, and the show’s host took to Xto point out the connection. See what I did there?

You can playConnections on any web browser but you need a New York Times subscription (which starts at $1 a week) to play.

Strands

Strands is another New York Times-owned puzzle but this game resembles a word search more so than Wordle and Connections. This game presents a theme every day to help you find words in a grid. In Strands words can pear forward, backward, top-to-bottom or any number of ways in a traditional word search, and words can also form in the she of an “L” or have a zigzag in them. When you find a word, t the first letter and drag your finger to the other letters. Every letter in the puzzle is used, so if you still have letters that aren’t connected to words, you aren’t finished yet.

You can play Strands on any web browser but you need a New York Times subscription (again, $1 a week) to play.

Quartiles

Quartiles is a new word game ple News Plus subscribers can access on their iPhone or iPad that’s running iOS 17.5 or later. In this word game, you’re given 20 tiles with letters on them and you’re trying to put them together to form different words. The longest words are four tiles long, and these are called Quartiles. The game can be tough but finding just one of the Quartiles is as satisfying as remembering something that was just on the tip of your tongue.

You can play Quartiles on an iPhone or iPad but you need an ple News subscription (which starts at $13 a month) to play.

Multiple Wordle spinoffs: Dordle, Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle

Are you up for a challenge? If you love Wordle and want puzzle games that take more brain power, you’ll want to check out eitherDordle,Quordle, OctordleorSedecordle. Each of these word games resembles Wordle, but they add more rows, columns and words to solve. Each game requires you to simultaneously solve a different number of words at once: Dordle has you solving two words, Quordle four at once, Octordle eight at once and Sedecordle a whopping 16. Good luck.

You can playDordle,Quordle,OctordleorSedecordleon any web browser.

Lewdle

You can play Lewdle on any web browser. You can also download this game from ple’s p Store or the Google Play store.

Antiwordle

Tired of seeing those gray, yellow and green blocks plastered all over your social media feed? Give Antiwordle a try. While Wordle wants you to guess a word in as few tries as possible, Antiwordle wants you to avoid the word by guessing as many times as possible. When you guess, letters will turn gray, yellow or red. Gray means the letter isn’t in the word and can’t be used again, yellow means the letter is in the word and must be included in each subsequent guess and red means the letter is in the exact position within the word and is locked in place. If you can use every letter on the keyboard without getting the word correct, you win. Honestly, I’ve found this version of Wordle to be much harder than the original.

You can playAntiwordleon any web browser.

Absurdle

Absurdle bills itself as the “adversarial version” of Wordle. While Wordle nudges you in the right direction with each guess, Absurdle is trying to avoid giving you the correct answer. According to the game’s website, “With each guess, Absurdle reveals as little information as possible, changing the secret word if need be.” Absurdle doesn’t pick a word at the beginning of the game for the player to guess. Instead, it uses the player’s guesses to narrow its list of words down in an effort to make the game go as long as possible. The final word might not even include a yellow letter from one of your earlier guesses either. You can guess as many times as you want, which is helpful, and the best score you can get is four. Have fun!

You can play Absurdle on any web browser.

For more word game fun, check out CNET’s Wordle tipsandeverything you need to know about the word game. You can also check out what to know about the other New York Times-owned games,Connections and Strands.

The internet just crossed a remarkable threshold. Agentic AI internet traffic now exceeds that of real humans for the first time.

“Welp, that hpened faster than I predicted,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a post on Xon Wednesday. “Thought it would be [at the] end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic [is] growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history.”

He backed up his claim with a post to Cloudflare Radar, the company’s internet measurement system, showing that agentic bot usage is up to 57.4% of total traffic, while human traffic has dropped to 42.6%.

Prince said in another post that the data is “a bit messy” but “clearly on the other side now,” indicating this is a trend that isn’t going away.

These are not the bots you’re looking for

It is important to clarify what Prince refers to regarding web traffic. Regular bots, like search engine scrers and web performance tools, eclipsed human internet traffic well over a decade ago. There are reports that those same bots exceeded human traffic on small websites even sooner, which led to a lot of small website owners exceeding their hosting usage limits faster than expected.

The agentic bots Prince is referring to are the systems that search the internet on your behalf when you ask an AI chatbot a question and return the results. Those searches and visits generate real web traffic, even if it doesn’t look that way from your AI chat width=1200">