Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. In a ...

Ever since Wordle took the internet by storm earlier this year, there has been an array of imitators competing to reach the same level of success. While many of these word-based guessing games have ...

What started as a fun, daily word-guessing game has turned into an overnight viral obsession. Wordle, created by software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to guess a five-letter word of the ...

If you tried to play Heardle this morning and got redirected to a Spotify website, that wasn’t a glitch. Spotify announced today that it acquired the Wordle-inspired music guessing game, which the ...