NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike

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Striking New York Times tech workers person created a “Guild Builds” page dedicated to strike-themed games you tin play, including a rotation connected Wordle, a connection search, and the customized Connections I reported connected earlier today.

As portion of its onslaught announcement connected Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild requested that radical don’t transverse the integer picket enactment to play the NYT’s regular puzzle games. This postulation of 5 different games offers an alternate if you privation to enactment the striking workers but besides bash immoderate encephalon teasers.

There are presently 5 games connected the page:

They aren’t ace fancy, but I’ve had amusive messing astir with them. The games volition beryllium updated “when they tin be,” Jen Sheehan, spokesperson for the NewsGuild of New York, tells The Verge, so you mightiness privation to cheque backmost each erstwhile successful awhile to spot if there’s a caller mentation of a puzzle to play. Sheehan besides says that guild members created each of the games but Strikle, which was made by an outer supporter.

The New York Times didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

The striking workers person besides asked radical not to usage NYT Cooking, truthful the Guild Builds leafage besides includes immoderate strike-themed recipes you tin marque instead. I’m personally intrigued by “‘We’ve got beef with management’ Stuffed Mushrooms,” though Solidarity Soup sounds beauteous good, too.

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