NYT Games is testing Zorse, a new ‘phrase guessing’ puzzle game

The New York Times is starting to beta trial a caller puzzle crippled called “Zorse,” arsenic reported by Semafor. The crippled is simply a “new operation guessing crippled wherever each puzzle is simply a mash-up of 2 phrases,” NYT spokesperson Jordan Cohen says successful a connection to The Verge. As Semafor points out, the Zorse sanction “identifies the offspring of a zebra and different equine,” truthful it seems similar the crippled volition absorption connected wordplay similar that.

Cohen says Zorse is presently lone disposable successful Canada, meaning I can’t play it myself. But my Canada-based workfellow Andrew Webster gave it a changeable and told maine astir it; the crippled sounds a spot similar Wheel of Fortune with a puzzle-y twist.

When you commencement a Zorse puzzle, you’re fixed a hint and shown a bid of blank tiles that, erstwhile revealed, spell retired a operation related to the clue. For today’s puzzle, the missive “H” was filled successful for 2 spots already. From there, you tin click connected a rubric and person that missive revealed, and you tin bash that up to 5 times. At immoderate point, erstwhile you deliberation you cognize the phrase, you tin participate it in.

It seems amusive to me, but I’m the benignant of idiosyncratic that already plays Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the NYT mini crossword each day. Hopefully, Zorse volition beryllium disposable much wide soon truthful I tin effort it out.

It’s not retired of the mean for the NYT to beta trial caller games. Strands launched successful beta earlier this twelvemonth earlier officially becoming a portion of the NYT Games app in June. Digits, a math-based puzzle game, wasn’t arsenic lucky, launching successful April 2023 successful beta earlier being unopen down a fewer months later.

In different NYT Games news, subscribers tin present endure done aged Connections puzzles thanks to a caller archive. LinkedIn has immoderate crippled quality arsenic well: it has added a 4th rubric to its lineup called Tango.