Omer Akbar
Last updated: November 9, 2026
Omer Akbar is the founder of WordHint. He started the site to cover one game properly, NYT Pips, with daily hints, verified answers and a free solver, instead of covering many games thinly. The homepage is the result of that decision: a Pips tool at the top, and full depth Pips guides underneath it.
What Omer oversees at WordHint
Omer runs the site and oversees the daily Pips coverage. He decides what the site publishes, sets the standard for verification, and checks that the homepage stays focused on Pips. The daily routine is the same every morning: the three boards are checked, the hints are written, the solver is loaded with the verified solution, and the page goes live only when the boards, the hints and the solver all agree.
Four standards behind every page
First, hints before answers, so a puzzle stays a puzzle. Second, verification before publication, so nothing goes live from memory or from a single guess. Third, original words, written fresh for each day's board, never copied from another site. Fourth, honesty about what is not known: if a board has more than one valid solution, the page says so, and if a time or a detail has never been officially published, the page says that too.
Why Pips, and why only Pips
Pips is a quiet, visual logic game in a lineup of word games, and it rewards a different kind of thinking: counting, matching and planning, rather than guessing letters. Omer chose it because it was underserved, because its players needed a proper hints page, and because a single game done well is more useful than seven games done in a hurry. That is the whole idea of WordHint, and it is the standard every page on the site is measured against.
Found something wrong?
If you found a mistake on the site, write to us through the Contact page, with the date and the board. Corrections are checked the same day, and a real error is fixed on the page, not hidden.