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New York Times Games is the essential app for anyone who loves word, logic and number games. Guess the Wordle, solve the Crossword or build words in Spelling Bee. Free to download, the app offers new puzzles daily for every skill level. App Features and Games: NEW: THE MIDI CROSSWORD - Crush this clever midsize word puzzle. - Just-right size between the Mini and the Crossword. - Enjoy approachable clues, special puzzles and a path to daily wins. THE CROSSWORD - The classic daily New York Times puzzle you love. - Crack clues and fill the grid with answers. - Crosswords increase in difficulty throughout the week. WORDLE - The official Wordle, a word-guessing game. - Can you guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less? - Analyze your guesses and improve your skills with Wordle Bot. CONNECTIONS - Group words that share a common thread. - Organize 16 terms into four categories using word associations and strategy in this brain teaser - Analyze your guesses and see how you stack up with Connections Bot. SPELLING BEE - Is spelling your strong suit? - See how many words you can create with 7 letters. - Build more words to earn more points. SUDOKU - Looking for a numbers game, minus the math? - Fill each 3x3 set of boxes with numbers 1 to 9. - Play a new puzzle every day in easy, medium or hard mode. STRANDS - Try this classic word search, with a twist. - Find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme. - How many words can you find? THE MINI CROSSWORD - All the fun of the Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds. - A spin on our original word game, with simpler clues. - Puzzles don’t increase in difficulty throughout the week. PIPS - Find the right spot for each domino. - Leverage logic and arrange dominoes in this brain teaser. - Play three puzzles daily: Easy, medium and hard. TILES - Unwind with a pattern-matching game. - The key is to match elements consecutively. - Can you keep your chain going? LETTER BOXED - Build words using letters around the square. - Test your word-making skills with daily puzzles. - Connect characters and see how many words you can create. BADGES - Earn badges for Spelling Bee, Wordle and Connections. - Celebrate your streaks and wins. STATS - Looking for your longest solving streak? - Wondering how many puzzles you’ve solved? - Track your progress with stats for the Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections and Strands. - Plus, monitor your average solve times. LEADERBOARD - Add friends and follow daily scores across Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and the Mini. - Plus, explore your score history to see how your word game scores stack up over time. PUZZLE ARCHIVE - Subscribers can solve over 10,000 past puzzles from New York Times Games. - Explore puzzle archives for Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, the Crossword and the Mini. HINTS - Find tips and strategize with fellow solvers in the forums. Just tap the light bulb while playing. - Available for Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and Strands. BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES GAMES APP, you agree to: • The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy • The New York Times Cookie Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy • The New York Times California Privacy Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice • The New York Times Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html • Apple Terms of Sale: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html
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Latest in each market: best US #30, worst AU #66 · 5 markets collected
US · last 30 days
Ratings
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14 of 15 markets; the rest gave no counter or aren't reached yet, not markets where nobody rated it.
About
New York Times Games is the essential app for anyone who loves word, logic and number games. Guess the Wordle, solve the Crossword or build words in Spelling Bee. Free to download, the app offers new puzzles daily for every skill level. App Features and Games: NEW: THE MIDI CROSSWORD - Crush this clever midsize word puzzle. - Just-right size between the Mini and the Crossword. - Enjoy approachable clues, special puzzles and a path to daily wins. THE CROSSWORD - The classic daily New York Times puzzle you love. - Crack clues and fill the grid with answers. - Crosswords increase in difficulty throughout the week. WORDLE - The official Wordle, a word-guessing game. - Can you guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less? - Analyze your guesses and improve your skills with Wordle Bot. CONNECTIONS - Group words that share a common thread. - Organize 16 terms into four categories using word associations and strategy in this brain teaser - Analyze your guesses and see how you stack up with Connections Bot. SPELLING BEE - Is spelling your strong suit? - See how many words you can create with 7 letters. - Build more words to earn more points. SUDOKU - Looking for a numbers game, minus the math? - Fill each 3x3 set of boxes with numbers 1 to 9. - Play a new puzzle every day in easy, medium or hard mode. STRANDS - Try this classic word search, with a twist. - Find hidden words and uncover the day’s theme. - How many words can you find? THE MINI CROSSWORD - All the fun of the Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds. - A spin on our original word game, with simpler clues. - Puzzles don’t increase in difficulty throughout the week. PIPS - Find the right spot for each domino. - Leverage logic and arrange dominoes in this brain teaser. - Play three puzzles daily: Easy, medium and hard. TILES - Unwind with a pattern-matching game. - The key is to match elements consecutively. - Can you keep your chain going? LETTER BOXED - Build words using letters around the square. - Test your word-making skills with daily puzzles. - Connect characters and see how many words you can create. BADGES - Earn badges for Spelling Bee, Wordle and Connections. - Celebrate your streaks and wins. STATS - Looking for your longest solving streak? - Wondering how many puzzles you’ve solved? - Track your progress with stats for the Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, Connections and Strands. - Plus, monitor your average solve times. LEADERBOARD - Add friends and follow daily scores across Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and the Mini. - Plus, explore your score history to see how your word game scores stack up over time. PUZZLE ARCHIVE - Subscribers can solve over 10,000 past puzzles from New York Times Games. - Explore puzzle archives for Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, the Crossword and the Mini. HINTS - Find tips and strategize with fellow solvers in the forums. Just tap the light bulb while playing. - Available for Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and Strands. BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES GAMES APP, you agree to: • The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy • The New York Times Cookie Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy • The New York Times California Privacy Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice • The New York Times Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html • Apple Terms of Sale: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
App StoreYou are here | Free | 293.4Kratings | 96% | #29 | not modelled |
| Free | 144Kratings | 95% | — | $9.2M |
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Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Constant Crashes I’ve been doing the daily crossword for at least six years now, and the app never had any issues until recently. Now, input cant keep up and the app crashes constantly in the middle of a solve. This is either due to ineptitude or the result of forcing AI slop into the codebase in order to “go faster.” Either way, the product is objectively worse than it was three months ago. Please right the ship, because the current state of the app is embarrassing.
The Crossword is still messed up I don’t think we need to see the pop up “Feeling Stuck” EVERY TIME you want to “Check Puzzle”
Long time player - disappointing updates I have been doing the crossword daily for years. I am on a nearly 2500 day streak for it and have completed over 8400 total daily crosswords. No one is more familiar with this app for the crossword portion. And since the latest update it has been basically ruined for crossword players. You will complete the crossword and it won’t stop the timer. Then when you back out of the puzzle and go back in, the app will have deleted half of your work but keep all the time. The “go to next blank” and “skip completed letters” worked until this week, which really messes with your muscle memory on how to quickly complete the full crossword. It is an embarrassment how badly implemented the latest change is. Clearly it was made to cater to Wordle players, which is fine but long time crossword players don’t matter any more I guess. I’ve never had the sort of problems that have appeared in the last few days. Very disappointing. If it wasn’t for my streak, I would cancel my subscription. Playing on iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Crashing and Annoying Reorder can’t do a crossword start to finish without it crashing multiple times. I know the devs are probably on this but it’s really frustrating. Plus, the crosswords being lower in the app is a real shame. It makes everything load slower and puts an annoying scroll into the experience. It should be returned to how it was or allowed to be customized. Especially needs to fix the crashing.
It used to be a good app App crashes regularly, and new changes have been a huge detriment to usability. The game ride has changed on the main page, so I have to scroll by games I have no desire to play to get to the crosswords. When I play old crosswords and want to check an answer or a square, I now get an annoying pop up saying it will not be counted in a streak if I continue… the old puzzles aren’t included in streaks anyway. Very disappointing direction for this app, it used to be a fun diversion.
Glitchy Love this app but lately it crashes and once you finish a game you have to close all the way out of the app because the x button in the upper right is not tappable. Surprised that such a reliable app has become so unusable.
Great app Fantastic app with may puzzle and archives
Loved this app for years - but is buggy I’ve been using the app every day for years and love it - but it’s become buggy. For over a month when entering a down answer, the associated clues will not ‘grey out’ - so you can’t tell from the list what clues have been solved. Clicking on either the last down clue - or the first three across clues - will sometimes trigger the completed down clues to ‘grey out’. There have been many, many updates to the app since this happened - but nothing has fixed this. What is going on? Is anybody still solving crosswords at the NYT?
Issues fixed Issues fixed and I’m loving it! Got a great deal on the app finally. And now I can enjoy it!
Crashing constantly Pretty nice app. Latest update is awful. Can’t get through a game without the app crashing multiple times.
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Latest in each market: best AU #47, worst US #99 · 4 markets collected
US · last 30 days
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