🧩 TIME Magazine Launches Games

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TIME Magazine Launches Seven Daily Games

It’s about time. After 100 years, TIME Magazine has launched TIME Games, a new daily destination designed to turn a century of iconic journalism into interactive puzzles. According to COO Mark Howard, this launch aims to give the magazine’s audience “something personal, playful, and distinctly TIME to return to.”

The standout experience is Market Movers, a fantasy prediction game where players choose the outcomes the market thinks are most likely. Other experimental formats include What Year Was It?, where users guess the year of an iconic cover, and Linked, a clever word-association game. Readers can also Race to the Red Border with the TIME Jigsaw, assembling legendary magazine covers. Aside from their Jigsaw, TIME uses the PuzzleMe platform for crowd favorites like Word Flower, Sudoku, and Word Search.

Get The Coast Adds Local Flavor to Games

Get The Coast, a local publication based in Okaloosa County, Florida, has learned the ropes of community-driven puzzles by ditching generic themes for neighborhood landmarks and regional trivia. By making the local community the actual subject of the puzzles, they have turned standard games into a daily neighborhood ritual.

On why the team chose an old photo of the Santa Rosa Mall food court for a Jigsaw puzzle, co-founder Laiken Williams:

The success of Get The Coast underscores a vital lesson for audience engagement: relevance works. When solvers see their own town in a grid or a jigsaw, they develop a habit that generic content can’t replicate. Read our full interview with the founders to see how they do it.

Erik Agard Wins The 48th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) took place in Stamford, Connecticut last month. The tournament had over 900 in-person solvers, many of whom attended in crossword-themed coats, leggings, socks and hats. The final tournament was won by constructor Erik Agard, who solved the final crossword by Christina Iverson in just 4 minutes and 19 seconds. You can try your hand at the final puzzle by purchasing the ACPT archive here.

The virtual tournament, which used PuzzleMe’s contest mode, had 400+ solvers participating. Virtual solvers and livestream viewers had more to see this year, with Boswords’ Andrew Kingsley conducting interviews with the ACPT constructors and solvers with interesting stories. Kingsley also spoke with our Chairman and Co-Founder, John Temple, about ACPT’s virtual tournament and Amuse Labs’ role in supporting the tournament. You can catch a recording of the livestream by going to ACPT’s Youtube channel here.

From the Crossworld

PuzzleMe Spotlight

A selection of updates from PuzzleMe, the most advanced digital platform for word and logic games

1. Puzzle Feed: Plug & Play Daily Puzzles

Cultivating a dedicated community of daily solvers becomes incredibly simple when the logistics run on autopilot. With Puzzle Feed, you get a daily stream of fresh games built by our editorial team and professional constructors, giving your website a traffic driver without any of the workload. You can just embed the feed on your site once and never worry about daily updates again.

The current lineup of formats for Puzzle Feed includes Large and Mini Crosswords, WordroWs, Word Flowers, Word Searches, and Sudokus, with more options on the way. Puzzle feeds are now available to users across our paid plans. Head onto Dashboard > Create > Puzzle Feed to get started.

2. Multi-Language Quizzes in One Click

For global organizations, manually translating quizzes can easily turn into a headache. Our new translation tool, powered by PuzzleMe AI, handles that heavy lifting for you. Now, you can build a multiple-choice quiz in one language and instantly spin it up in over 40 others with a single click. 

The tool translates everything from the title down to the questions and the options providing you with multiple versions. Learn more here.

3. PuzzleMe for Microsoft Teams

Bringing interactive games into your workspace is as easy as a single click with our Microsoft Teams integration. The PuzzleMe app for Teams lets you share and play puzzles directly within your team channels, turning standard crosswords, sudokus or even WordroWs into quick, collaborative icebreakers. 

Every puzzle shared includes a real-time Teams leaderboard where colleagues can compare solve times, sparking a bit of friendly competition without ever leaving the Teams app. To get started, just install the app here and add it to your preferred Teams channel.

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