Game designer and artist Zach Gage has made a name for himself breaking down the world’s most commonly played games and creating something new from the pieces. He’s brought the strategy of poker to solitaire, built a chaotic version of chess with randomized pieces and, now, made a crossword-style puzzle where the grid patterns themselves are the clues.
It’s called Knotwords, a daily logic puzzle that combines design elements from several commonly played games: sudoku, kakuro, kenken and, of course, Wordle — the viral five-letter word-guessing game the New York Times scooped up earlier this year.
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