Puzzle Mania!

“With its colorful hard cover and stylish design, New York Times Games’ excellent Puzzle Mania! is a perfect gift for families. The puzzles come in varying levels of difficulty: Emojigraphy, containing emojis in succession to “spell” words, is perfect for Generation Alpha kiddos; a giant crossword puzzle folds out to be spread across a table, with easy clues on the right and difficult versions of them on the left. For the veteran solver, Puzzle Mania! gathers five of the most devilishly hard acrostic crosswords ever to appear in NYT, grids from the World Sudoku Championship and a Spelling Bee so hard that it’s never been released. And for those of us addicted to the NYT Games app, there are new twists on Connections, Strands and the other games that keep us up too late at night.” * BookPage, starred review. *

New York Times Games engages players of all skill levels, releasing brand-new puzzles through its app and website every day. Beginning with the launch of the Crossword in 1942, and later adding the Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections, Strands, and others, Games delights millions with its portfolio of word and logic puzzles.

Joel Fagliano is a lead puzzle editor at The New York Times. He is the creator of the Mini Crossword, which has appeared daily in the Times’ Games app since 2014. Joel lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.