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More than 75 years ago, The New York Times finally accepted that puzzles weren’t a waste of time for readers and it became the last New York daily newspaper to put a crossword in its paper. Now, the publication is leaning even deeper into the category with a new game, called Tiles, that the company went live with today.
While the paper added the crossword to give readers a diversion from hard news after World War II, Tiles is intended to be a low-stakes game to help users relax and wind down, offering them what game designers hope will be an appealing, “not too stressful” puzzle, said Sam Von Ehren, the Times’ gamemaker.
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