WHY THE LINGUIST: WORD CRAFT WILL BECOME YOUR NEXT WORD GAME OBSESSION

Word games never get old—but some feel a lot newer than others. The Linguist: Word Craft is the latest entry in player1games’s Linguist series of letter-based noodle-scratchers, and it’s taking over our lives.

Like The Linguist before it, Word Craft is a quietly innovative and totally free word puzzler with slick presentation, hidden depths, and endlessly replayable gameplay. It looks a bit like Boggle, but it takes the format and runs with it.