The award-winning news comedy show, which propelled Jon Stewart to fame and saw him return as a one-day-a-week anchor in 2024, is adding a new rotating host to its lineup.

Wordle is released at midnight in your time zone. In order to accommodate all time zones, there will be two Wordle Reviews live every day, dated based on Eastern Standard Time. If you find yourself on the wrong review, check the number of your puzzle and go to this page to find the corresponding review.

Wordle, Connections, and Strands are all free, quick games from the New York Times. Here's how they compare in time required, skills needed, and frustration factor. (Also: Where to find hints!)

Key Takeaways Use strategic starter words that maximize vowel and consonant coverage.Eliminate improbable letters early to narrow the solution space quickly.App

To mark World Emoji Day (yes, that’s a real thing, celebrated annually on July 17), Apple has launched Emoji Game, a new daily word puzzle exclusive to Apple News+ subscribers. The puzzle challenges users to solve short phrases by dragging and dropping emojis into the correct blanks — essentially turning everyday emoji into mini riddles.

Of all of them, I feel Quordle is the sweet spot: enough puzzles to make things interesting, but not so many as to be overwhelming. The Lifehacker team feels the same way, as it's the only multi-Wordle for which we publish daily hints.

Besides, even without the hints, both of them are as likely as I am to solve the puzzle, which, they say, proves they’re smarter than I am. I counter that if they’re so smart, why don’t they pony up the subscription cost and get the free hints themselves? And on it goes.