Across several outlets, readers are offered hints and explanations for daily puzzles, from Wordle-style clues about a star-themed aster and related garden terms to NYT Strands grids and spangrams ...

Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early-stage games accelerator), ...