T here must be people who don’t like quizzes, but I have yet to meet them. Meanwhile, the rest of us launch ourselves with obsessive-compulsive regularity into Wordiply, Wordle, the New York Times’s utterly infuriating Connections and the Guardian’s own Thursday quiz , which comes complete with its own official dog. Why do we do it? Presumably there’s a competitive element, though I have muted “wordle” on my Bluesky timeline, and it would never occur to me to boast about having named the Framed film in one go, or identified a west African country purely from its shape in Worldle. Upgrade your downtime with Guardian Puzzles Read more

Quizzes are educational, but only to a degree; Artistle has taught me more about 19th-century Russian landscape painters than is ever likely to be of u

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