Whether you’re playing for fun, sharpening your mind, or chasing a perfect streak, today’s NYT Mini continues the tradition of turning simple clues into a satisfying cognitive journey.

Learn Words - Use Syllables is an exciting mix between a word and a trivia game. Words are split into colorful syllables and you have to put them back together as fast as possible.

On-air challenge: I'm going to give you two words. Drop one letter in each of them to leave two words that are in the same category of things. Ex. DRILL STAGE --> dill & sage (both herbs) Winner ...

The puzzle is to find something even rarer: four two-syllable words that are all homophones of each other. Again, no proper nouns.

On-air challenge: Every answer today is a madeup phrase like MIGHTY MATEY, consisting of two two-syllable words that are pronounced the same except for their initial vowels. The first word in the ...

(upbeat music) - Hi friends, welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom. My name's Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School. And here for Teaching ...

Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types and division rules to decode high frequency words. We ...