USA TODAY PLAY Crossword+

USA TODAY

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Elevate your puzzle-solving skills with the USA TODAY PLAY app, including Crosswords, Quick Cross and Sudoku! Challenge yourself daily with our renowned crossword puzzles, sudoku grids, and Quick Cross while keeping track of your progress, all in one ultimate puzzle games app.

🧩 DAILY CROSSWORD CHALLENGE: Start your day with our iconic daily crossword puzzle, a brain teaser loved by millions. Free to play and accessible anytime, anywhere.

📊 PERSONALIZED PUZZLE EXPERIENCE: Monitor your stats, pause puzzles, and change difficulty settings for a tailored gaming experience.

🕰️ PUZZLE ARCHIVE: Delve into over a decade's worth of crossword puzzles, sudoku grids, and Quick Cross challenges. Hours of puzzle-solving fun await!

❓ GET PUZZLE HINTS: Stuck on a clue? Don't worry! Request hints to keep the puzzle excitement going.

🎯 SUDOKU FUN: In addition to daily crosswords, challenge your logic with sudoku puzzles, available right at your fingertips.

🕹️ ULTIMATE PUZZLE GAMES: USA TODAY PLAY app is your one-stop destination for daily crossword, sudoku, and Quick Cross challenges, designed for puzzle enthusiasts of all levels.

Download the USA TODAY PLAY app today and enjoy hours of mind-bending puzzle fun. The app is free to download and play, with premium features available through in-app subscriptions. Subscriptions are charged to your Google Play account upon confirmation and renew automatically unless you disable them in your account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Find more details and customer support in the app's settings.

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Ratings and reviews

The games are ok if a little buggy, but the real issue is that paying for the subscription doesn't remove ads on all the games. The ads are near constant. Every time you click into the game you have to watch an ad, and there are random banner ads several times a minute that cover half the screen. When you click to minimize them the music cuts out and the controls lock up for a few seconds. This makes playing anything timed very annoying because the timer doesn't stop for the ads.

New software update is awful! Keyboard takes up too much space and you can't see the whole puzzle. The archive has you scroll down which takes forever instead of choosing a date on a calendar. But most important for me is that I'm unable to print blank puzzles to take to work since I can't have my phone at work. What a waste of a $40/year subscription!

Wish I could run it offline! I'm not amazing at crosswords so find the NYT puzzle a little too hard, especially past Wednesday. I like the USA Today puzzle though. I spend a lot of time on airplanes and that is when I really like to puzzle but this app does not seem to work offline even as a paid subscriber. I wish I could download from the archive and then do a bunch of puzzles to pass the time in flight!

What’s new

• We've resolved several bugs and improved performance