Words With Friends takes on Wordle with new single-player daily puzzles
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Wordle's success has caused an explosion in newspaper-style puzzle games, and now Words With Friends is getting in on the action. The long-running word game is adding four solo modes that can be played daily, and they'll sound familiar to those who use The New York Times' gaming app.
The new games include a mini crossword puzzle; a word search; Word Wheel, which is about connecting letters to create words; and a word guessing game called Guess Word. You can see what they all look like in the gallery below:
Zynga, which owns Words With Friends, says that each of the games will have new puzzles daily and can be played either solo or in multiplayer. Our players asked if they could do even more, so we've added a whole new layer of...