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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. |
| January 13 2025 | Zorse game discontinued. |
| January 13 2025 | Zorse game was discontinued after a short beta period in Canada. |
| October 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. |
| August 2024 | Vertex game was announced to be discontinued at the end of the month. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| June 12 2023 | Connections game released for PC during its beta phase. |
| June 12 2023 | Connections was released for PC during its beta phase, quickly becoming the second most played game published by the Times. |
| April 2023 | The New York Times introduced Digits, a number-based game. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| August 2022 | Wordle was added to the NYT Games application, which required the game to be rewritten using the React JavaScript library. |
| February 2022 | Wordle was moved to The New York Times servers and website. |
| February 2022 | Wordle was moved to the New York Times website, making it officially part of their game collection. |
| January 2022 | The New York Times acquired Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, marking a significant expansion of their digital games portfolio. |
| January 2022 | The New York Times Company acquired Wordle, a word game developed by Josh Wardle, for a valuation in the low-seven figures. The acquisition was proposed by David Perpich of the Sulzberger family. |
| January 1 2022 | Wordle results were shared 1.2 million times on Twitter between January 1 and 13. |
| 2020 | Over 28 million people played at least one New York Times game during this year. |
| June 2019 | The Times launched two new games: Tiles, a matching game where players form sequences of tile pairings, and Vertex, where players connect vertices to assemble an image. |
| February 2019 | The Times introduced Letter Boxed, a game where players form words from letters placed on the edges of a square box. |
| May 2018 | Spelling Bee was published on NYTimes.com, significantly increasing its popularity. |
| 2014 | The New York Times officially launched The New York Times Games with the addition of the Mini Crossword. |
| 2014 | The New York Times Magazine introduced Spelling Bee, a word game created by Frank Longo and proposed by Will Shortz, where players guess words from a set of letters in a honeycomb. |
| August 21 2014 | Official establishment of NYT Games with the addition of the Mini Crossword, signaling the formal launch of the digital games platform. |
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