Not exactly. But their runaway success with games like Wordle says something bigger about the way we live now. (Part one of a series, “<a href="https://freakonomics.com/we-are-all-gamers-now/" rel="noopener noreferrer">We Are All Gamers Now</a>.”)
  
<ul>
 <li>SOURCES:
 <ul>
 <li><a href="https://www.nytco.com/person/alex-hardiman/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alex Hardiman</a>, chief product officer at The New York Times.</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jk00011/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jonathan Knight</a>, S.V.P. and general manager for New York Times Games.</li>
 <li><a href="https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/faculty/eric-zimmerman/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eric Zimmerman</a>, game designer, professor of game design at the N.Y.U. Game Center.</li>
 </ul></li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
 <li>RESOURCES:
 <ul>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wordle Is a Love Story</a>," by Daniel Victor (New York Times, 2022).</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rules-We-Break-Lessons-Thinking/dp/1648960677" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design</a>, by Eric Zimmerman (2022).</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Inside-Box-Adventures-Crosswords/dp/0525522085" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them</a>, by Adrienne Raphel (2020).</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grasshopper-Games-Life-Utopia/dp/155111772X" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia</a>, by Bernard Suits (2005).</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Play-Design-Fundamentals-Press/dp/0262240459" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals</a>, by Katie Salen Tekinbas and Eric Zimmerman (2003).</li>
 </ul></li>
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