NYT Games: Word, Number, Logic

The New York Times Company

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About this game

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, so there’s something for everyone.

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 1–9. 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 games 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.

Enjoy unlimited gameplay, The Crossword archive and more with a monthly or annual subscription. See our subscription offers for further details.

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Please note: A subscription to New York Times Games does not include access to any other New York Times products, including but not limited to nytimes.com, New York Times Cooking, Wirecutter, mobile news content and other apps on non-iOS devices.

Ratings and reviews

2 weeks ago, I would have given this 5 stars. It was my nightly ritual before sleep on my tablet. Suddenly, I can't get the app to work on my kindle after months of play. I had hoped to fix the problem by Uninstaller and reloading it, but now Google Play says it can't function on my kindle. The font is too small on my phone. (I downloaded it on my phone so I could get in to write this review. ) So much for years of membership...guess it's time for Kindle folks to cancel their subscriptions.

Ack. I had dark mode for the Bee for less than a week before the blessed feature disappeared. I didn't know if you're A/B testing, changing your mind, or what. Quite frustrating to regress like that. Immediate edit: I went back after writing this review and it switched back to dark mode. So more likely just a bug picking up my settings.

Ads are bad unless there is additional functionality. I liked the app because I could start/stop playing within seconds & could turn off the part of my brain that performs critical thinking. I was thinking of a subscription until now. Somehow my most recent review was rolled back? My opinion of the New York times is suddenly dropping. They buy something to put it behind a paywall and ads.

What's new

This version contains the Connections archive, featuring over 450 official puzzles from past days.

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