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, Connections, 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.

BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES GAMES APP, you agree to:
• The automatic renewal terms stated above.
• The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy
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• 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

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

Absolutely love the app, only problem is there's no manual dark mode option. I followed the steps from the help center, updated the app too, there's no way to play in dark mode. I just have to hope the dark mode pop up will appear which has only happened a couple times in the year or two I've had the app. It's not ideal to have a glaring light as my only option to play on even with the screen brightness all the way down. I'd like to do them before bed not without dark mode. Otherwise I love app!

Let's you play to a certain point in a level of a game then makes you subscribe to continue THE SAME LEVEL! I can understand if it let you actually complete a level as a demo, but I started one game and before that first level could be completed it forced subscription. Tell me ahead of time if I cannot complete even a level without subscribing. One star, never coming back. Good job!

The app sucks. I am a subscriber but it constantly logs me out and even logged in half the time it says I need to resubscribe. I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times and no resolution. Update: it still logs me out every time I navigate away from Spelling Bee. Last week wasn't saving Spelling Bee play. This week I can't open the crossword at all. Wordle works fine. If I could give this zero stars I would. Update: 2024 and problems again w/ this app. Can't access content I paid for.

What’s new

This version contains improvements to keep you solving smoothly!

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