Among all the New York Times mobile games, Vertex may be the most straightforward since it only asks you to quickly form a picture by connecting dots. However, some rules can confuse beginners trying to make the pre-determined image. With the right strategies, you can figure out simple ways to approach every puzzle in this deceptively complex game of pattern recognition.
When you start a game of Vertex, it looks very different from other New York Times games like Tiles or Spelling Bee. Right away, you can see a series of blank circles that each contain a number and the number of "triangles" you have left to form to solve the picture.