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I am a regular user of the NYT games page. As long as you have adblock enabled its a pretty good experience. For some games they might post a leaderboard and certain games like the crossword require you to have a subscription. But many others are free and have no login requirement such as the Spelling Bee [1].

1. https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

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I ran into this after a few minutes of play.

https://i.imgur.com/b8P2iVM.png

Yes me too, and it confused me. Does that mean I got all the possible words? I got around sixteen IIRC, but feel like there might be more? I don't know, but that screen is a dead end which doesn't either make that clear or let me go back.

And BTW I'm using Chrome with uBlock Origin enabled here.

I've got that screen after a couple of words. It might be point-based because I swear I got it very early after getting an 8-10 letter word. Other times it doesn't show up for 15ish words.

The game is points-based, "genius rank" means something like 80% of the possible points have been found.

https://i.imgur.com/dw244XL.png

You can't actually complete the game without paying. I think it's a pretty dark pattern - get the player invested, then block their progress.

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