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February 9 2025 Connections: Sports Edition officially launched to coincide with Super Bowl LIX.
February 9 2025 Connections: Sports Edition was formally launched, adding an optional timer for completing the puzzle.
February 9 2025 Connections: Sports Edition officially launched to coincide with Super Bowl LIX.
2024 Cancer returned for a third time during the summer.
2024 Silver voted for Kamala Harris in the election.
2024 Silver created an election forecast for the 2024 U.S. presidential election between Trump and Harris, which predicted an almost even chance of winning the Electoral College and correctly forecast Trump's victory in most swing states and the presidency.
November 2024 Silver reported significant financial success from Silver Bulletin, ranking third on Substack's politics leaderboard with 282,000 subscribers.
October 2024 Zorse, a phrase guessing game, entered beta in Canada.
October 8 2024 Zorse, a phrase guessing game, entered beta in Canada.
October 8 2024 Zorse, a phrase guessing game, entered beta in Canada.
September 2024 The Athletic, in partnership with NYT Games, launched a sports edition of Connections in beta.
September 24 2024 Connections: Sports Edition was launched in beta in collaboration with The Athletic.
September 24 2024 Connections: Sports Edition was launched in beta in collaboration with The Athletic.
August 2024 Vertex game was announced to be discontinued at the end of the month.
August 2024 Silver published his book 'On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything', exploring calculated risks in various fields like finance and poker.
August 29 2024 Vertex, a subscription-only visual game, was retired with its last playable game on this date.
August 29 2024 Vertex, a subscription-only visual game, was retired with its last playable game on this date.
June 2024 Strands left the beta stage and became a full game, added to the NYT Games app.
June 2024 Silver released his own election forecasting model at Silver Bulletin, using methodology similar to his previous model at 538, and joined Polymarket prediction market startup as an advisor.
June 2024 Strands left the beta stage and became a full game, added to the NYT Games app.
June 12 2024 On June 12, 2024, Slim acquired a 3% stake in British telecommunications company BT, valued at approximately £400 million.
March 2024 The New York Times introduced Strands, a beta word game where players connect letters in a grid to reveal words with a common theme.
March 2024 The New York Times introduced Strands, a beta word game where players connect letters in a grid to reveal words with a common theme.
January 13 2024 Zorse was discontinued after a short beta period.
January 13 2024 Zorse was discontinued after a short beta period.
2023 Featured in the documentary film 'American Symphony', which captures her cancer battle and her partner Jon Batiste's symphony composition.
2023 Silver participated in the World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing in 87th place and earning part of his $811,142 total tournament earnings.
October 2023 NYT Games' daily active users tripled to over 2.6 million, and the platform reached over 10 million daily players across all platforms.
October 2023 NYT Games' daily active users tripled to over 2.6 million, and the platform reached over 10 million daily players across all platforms.
August 2023 Digits game was shut down.
August 2023 Digits game was shut down.
August 8 2023 Digits puzzle game was shut down by The New York Times Games.
August 8 2023 Digits puzzle game was shut down by The New York Times Games.
July 2023 The New York Times introduced Connections, a word game where players identify groups of words with a common property.
July 2023 The New York Times introduced Connections, a word game where players identify groups of words with a common property.
June 12 2023 Connections was released for PC during its beta phase, quickly becoming the second most played game published by the Times.
June 12 2023 Connections was released for PC during its beta phase, quickly becoming the second most played game published by the Times.
May 2023 Departs from FiveThirtyEight and begins publishing on his Substack blog, Silver Bulletin, while serving as an advisor to Polymarket.
May 2023 Silver departed from FiveThirtyEight, with the site continuing to operate under the data analytics division of ABC News with a reduced team.
April 2023 The New York Times introduced Digits, a number-based game.
April 2023 Nate Silver announced that his contract with ABC would not be extended, coinciding with widespread layoffs at Disney and ABC affecting FiveThirtyEight.
April 10 2023 Digits, a number puzzle game, was launched in beta by The New York Times Games.
April 10 2023 Digits, a number puzzle game, was launched in beta by The New York Times Games.
March 2023 The NYT Crosswords app was renamed to NYT Games to better represent its collection of games including Wordle, Spelling Bee, Tiles, and Sudoku.
March 2023 The NYT Crosswords app was renamed to NYT Games to better represent its collection of games including Wordle, Spelling Bee, Tiles, and Sudoku.
2022 Cavett expressed surprise at his footage appearing in the film Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, reflecting on the unexpected continuity of his work in pop culture.
2022 Silver voted for Kathy Hochul in the election.
November 2022 The New York Times announced Tracy Bennett as the official editor of Wordle.
November 2022 The New York Times announced Tracy Bennett as the official editor of Wordle.
October 2022 The start of a period where NYT Games' daily active users were 886,000.

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