If you’re a Wordle player, you may want to check out a new daily puzzle being tested this week at The New York Times. This puzzle is about numbers, not letters—but perhaps hoping to strike gaming gold again, the color scheme will look very familiar to Wordle players.
Yep, the beta of the new game features that same alluring shade of green that Wordle uses to let you know you’ve gotten a letter in the right place. After a year or so of playing Wordle I feel like I’ve been trained to get a little rush from seeing that color. Smart move, NYT! You’ve already got me hooked.
The new daily number puzzle game is called, appropriately enough, Digits, and the rules are pretty simple to grasp. You’ve given a target number, along with six other numbers you need to combine to reach that target. You can add, subtract, multiply, or divide those six numbers as you attempt to reach the target, and you don’t need to use all the numbers to solve the puzzl…