My 20-year-old niece, Emma, texted the other day to tell me she’s addicted to The Times’s game Connections; she and her friends play every day, along with the Mini and Strands.
“The people who make the games need to make more fun games,” she declared.
I don’t mind her treating me as her personal on-demand suggestion box for The New York Times; she’s my personal on-demand focus group for Gen Z. She’s used to my asking her about Snapchat etiquette, or which athleisure brands are cool, or if it’s true that her generation is grossed out by feet.
I’d read about how younger people are getting into puzzles, but this was the first time my Gen Z rep had volunteered a report from the field.
I, too, love Connections, but my deepest and most abiding puzzle romance is with The Times’s crossword.
Persons:
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Organizations:
The New York Times