The Pears Game Puzzle: What's at Stake in the Digital Archive? The online world often recreates bygone eras in eerie digital facsimiles, evoking nostalgia for a time gone by.
Slate's Pears game is no exception – an ostensibly trivial diversion that conceals within it the complexities of digital archiving and our evolving relationship with words.
Pears Game 390, which dropped on September 8, 2026, involves identifying the longest word in a given list of words.