The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-rumgys, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.

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Considering the global sensation it has become, Wordle has remarkably humble origins, with the game invented during the coronavirus lockdown by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from the U.K. working in New York,