NYT Games: Word Games & Sudoku 4+

The Crossword, Wordle & More

The New York Times Company

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Keep your mind sharp with word and logic puzzles from New York Times Games. Free to download, the app offers new puzzles daily for every skill level.

App Features and Games:

NEW: STRANDS
Our latest game lets you find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme. It’s the word search you know, with a twist.

WORDLE
Play the original Wordle — created by Josh Wardle — in our app. Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less, and analyze your guesses with WordleBot.

SPELLING BEE
Is scrambling your strong suit? Play the daily Spelling Bee and see how many words you can make with 7 letters.

THE CROSSWORD
Subscribers can play the same daily puzzle that’s printed in The New York Times, in our app. Crosswords increase in difficulty throughout the week.

CONNECTIONS
Group words with a common thread. See if you can do it with four mistakes or fewer.

SUDOKU
Looking for a numbers game, minus the math? Play Sudoku and fill each 3x3 set of boxes with numbers 1 to 9. Play a new puzzle every day in easy, medium or hard mode.

THE MINI CROSSWORD
The Mini is all the fun of The Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds. These word puzzles don’t increase in difficulty throughout the week and feature simpler clues.

TILES
Unwind while you match elements in the day’s pattern — the key is to make consecutive matches.

LETTER BOXED
Create words using letters around the square. Letter Boxed is another fun way to test your word-making skills.

STATS
Track your progress for The Crossword, Wordle and Spelling Bee. For The Crossword, monitor your average solve times, see how many puzzles you can solve in a row, and more. Plus follow your streak on Wordle, and track how often you reach each level in Spelling Bee.

LEADERBOARDS
Start a friendly competition with The Mini leaderboards. Add up to 25 friends to see who can solve today’s Mini puzzle the fastest.

PUZZLE ARCHIVE
Subscribers can now solve over 10,000 past puzzles from Wordle, Spelling Bee and The Crossword.

DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS:
You can purchase a monthly or annual New York Times Games subscription. As a subscriber, you’ll enjoy the full Wordle experience, plus Spelling Bee, The Crossword and more. See our subscription offers for further details.

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What’s New

Version 5.17.0

This version contains improvements to keep you solving smoothly!

Have feedback? Email us. nytgames@nytimes.com

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
2.6K Ratings

2.6K Ratings

nshady ,

Slowly but surely chipping away at issues

I appreciate the continual improvements being made in this app. Sync feels like it’s getting slightly more reliable in showing you which archive puzzles you’ve already played, though I have had streaks fail because a puzzle completed on one device was not synced before I played the next day’s on a different device. Hopefully work continues in this area.

I like the visual style of dark mode but I hope the app goes all in quickly. Having the puzzles dark but menu selection light just makes this harsher when bouncing between them. Please finish creating dark variants for all parts of the app and enable iOS to automatically change it when the system setting changes at sunset.

Otherwise, the app is just as good as ever.

Simon Gross ,

Have fun, feel smart on Monday

I do these every night, close to bedtime. I do Connections, then Wordle. I get the Pangram out on Spelling Bee. If I have time, and I am not yet asleep, I’ll try the Crossword. Mondays and Tuesdays are pretty snappy. Wednesdays and Thursdays are harder. At least you’ll feel smarter at the start of the week. If you’re really out of things to do on a Friday night, and there’s no shame in that by the way, have a go at the Friday puzzle. Why not. There’s always Saturday there to really test you. No shame in getting just a few clues out. It’s how we learn. I’ve started playing the one where the words connect in squiggly lines. What I’m trying to say is think back to the simple joy you felt doing a word search as a kid. That’s NYT Games for me.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying our games. I will pass your feedback on to the team. Thanks again for playing!

Evadgib ,

Easier navigation

Update: dark mode is a welcome change but please remove white screens in the menus.

One gripe. I was just struggling with a crossword. I’m relatively new to enjoying crosswords (thanks to this app) and I figured out what TEBUS was after not being able to finish a few and revealing the answer. Now I have been completing these crosswords with some difficulty but I have just found my first number (3) in a crossword. I suffered over this clue and tried using REBUS with a number of words only to find a number is in the answer. I thought it was an rule that there were no numbers in crosswords. Is it possible to hint somewhere if this is going to be the case? Other than that I love it.

Oct 19: I've noticed a few comments on hear mention the navigation and overall layout, it would be great to have an update. I'm a fan of the larger crosswords and not so much the mini/midis, although I do complete the free ones. After I've finished a pack I spend ages trawling through the available packs to find the larger one as not all midis are labelled to indicate they are infact midis. Could you please find a way to distinguish the two? I also agree with other suggestions your users have made here in reviews.

Can we please have a dark mode option?

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