Grammar Girl here. I'm In Yon Fogarty, and today I'm here with Lex Friedman, who does so many things.

We're going to talk about word games. Lex, I have known you forever. Welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast.

Thank you. I'm very excited to be on the show. Thanks for having me.

Yeah. The reason I know Lex is that he was one of the co-founders of Midroll, which has been

our advertising partner for, you know, since I think the beginning or almost the beginning.

And people don't realize, but ads really make the show possible. So, Lex, like, Grammar Girl is possible

because of your work. I mean, it's here today, largely because, like, in part at least,

because of you. So thank you. That's very kind, but it also always succeeds because it's a great show,

but I'm happy to have played a part. Really, you've been there a long time. And so now you're

out on your own and you have

so many fun projects going on including a site that updates daily word games which is what we're

going to talk about largely today so can you just tell people about your word game site yeah so

the site is lex dot games because I was very creative when I named it.

The origin story was I loved when the New York Times first launch its connections puzzles.

And I thought they were really fun.

And I wanted to create one, because I was trying to think, how do you create one of these puzzles?

Like, what's the thought process behind it?

And I found a website where you could do it. And I made a couple and I was sharing them and people liked them.

And then I made one that had a typo.

And that website that I was using had no option to edit things.

I was like, I should build my own.

So I built my own site because I had a web developer background.

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