Puzzle Mania! - by The New York Times Games & Joel Fagliano (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From New York Times Games, home of Wordle and Connections, comes a collection that transforms your favorite digital games into a beautifully designed book that's perfect for solo play, family game night, or gifting to puzzle-obsessed friends.

Puzzle Mania! tops this year's best gift guides:

• Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year
• The Strategist, NY Mag
• The Associated Press
• Featured on the TODAY show

Whether you're new to puzzles or never miss a Saturday crossword, Puzzle Mania! is a joyful workout for your brain and an invitation to friendly (or not-so-friendly) competition.

This premium collection features exclusive content you won't find anywhere else, thoughtfully curated by NYT Games lead editor Joel Fagliano.

Inside you'll discover:

• Never-before-seen spins on popular digital games like Spelling Bee and Connections
• A Mega Crossword with two sets of clues (easy and hard)
• Joel's hand-picked selection of his favorite-ever NYT Mini Crosswords
• Unique brain benders, logic puzzles and trivia categories
• And so. much. Wordle.

With a beautifully designed lay-flat format perfect for marking up, this collection offers new challenges as your skills develop. Whether you're treating yourself to a screen-free puzzle ritual, looking for the perfect gift for the Wordle player who texts you their score every morning, or need something to keep everyone entertained at holiday gatherings--Puzzle Mania! delivers.

Review Quotes

"With its colorful hard cover and stylish design, New York Times Games' excellent Puzzle Mania! is a perfect gift for families. The puzzles come in varying levels of difficulty: Emojigraphy, containing emojis in succession to "spell" words, is perfect for Generation Alpha kiddos; a giant crossword puzzle folds out to be spread across a table, with easy clues on the right and difficult versions of them on the left. For the veteran solver, Puzzle Mania! gathers five of the most devilishly hard acrostic crosswords ever to appear in NYT, grids from the World Sudoku Championship and a Spelling Bee so hard that it's never been released. And for those of us addicted to the NYT Games app, there are new twists on Connections, Strands and the other games that keep us up too late at night."-- "BookPage, starred review."

About the Author

New York Times Games engages players of all skill levels, releasing brand-new puzzles through its app and website every day. Beginning with the launch of the Crossword in 1942, and later adding the Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections, Strands, and others, Games delights millions with its portfolio of word and logic puzzles, which can be found at nyt.com/crosswords.

Joel Fagliano is a lead puzzle editor at The New York Times. He is the creator of the Mini Crossword, which has appeared daily in the Times' Games app since 2014. Joel lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.