Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family.
But he's also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the space. "When I was a kid and I played word games with my family, they weren't the New York Times puzzle games," Rosenthal explains. "We were sitting in a car on a road trip playing these really loose games that couldn't be made digitally before.
Things like the alphabet game or our own riffs on 20 questions.
That felt like a really int … Read the full story at The Verge.