CARLSBAD, Calif. — One of the world's top crossword puzzle writers claims he has created a system to beat the word game Wordle. In this Zevely Zone, I went to Carlsbad to meet the King of Crosswords.

For a while there, I was infatuated with Wordle. Who wasn’t? Our national love affair with the yellow-green-and-gray word game was initiated largely by its charming origin story. Programmer Josh ...

If you ever stop and think about language, it’s actually kind of mind-blowing. Our ability to string words together and understand each other is nothing short of magical. So magical, in fact, that ...