Guardian Puzzles & Crosswords

Guardian News & Media Ltd

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About this game

Give yourself a real challenge with over 15,000 crosswords and sudokus from The Guardian and Observer - and enjoy new ones added every day.

Start playing today with unlimited access for fourteen days. After that, either play a new crossword and sudoku everyday for free, or enjoy full access by subscribing.

App features include:

Play with ease: Timer, reveal, check, and clue functions
Play with friends: Two-player mode and social sharing
Play anywhere: Offline play
Play through history: A user-friendly calendar of the enormous Guardian archive of over 15,000 crosswords and sudokus
Play your favourites: Search by crossword setter

Puzzles included in the app:

Quick - a quick but challenging crossword, published every Monday to Saturday

Cryptic - a cryptic crossword where every clue contains a definition of the answer you're looking for, published every weekday

Quiptic - a cryptic puzzle for beginners, published every Monday

Weekend - our weekend cryptic, published every Saturday

Everyman - a prize crossword, published every Sunday

Speedy - a compact crossword for those in a hurry, published every Sunday

Prize - a prize crossword, published every Saturday

Sudoku - easy, medium, hard, expert and mini


Terms of use:
All content in the Guardian app is copyright Guardian News & Media 2020. All rights reserved. Terms of use and privacy policy apply when accessing content via the Guardian app.

Privacy policy:
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2020/feb/11/the-guardian-puzzles-privacy-policy

Terms and conditions:
http://www.theguardian.com/help/terms-of-service

Ratings and reviews

The crosswords go back to 1999, but the only way to access them is to tap back one month at a time on the calendar. Even more frustratingly, if you stop halfway through completing a crossword and the app automatically returns to the home page, it doesn't save progress so you have to go back and re-enter the solutions you already had. I've given three stars just for the fact that it's got so many crosswords. Hopefully they'll read these reviews and fix the issues.

Not a big fan or particularly good at crossword puzzles. I usually only dabble when someone else is doing one. But this app is easy to use, and as far as I can see, has plenty of puzzles at hand during its 14 day trial period. After that there's a pretty hefty subscription fee for those wanting to continue. For me, I'll be sticking with the occasionally free puzzle thereafter.

Lot of content with a calendar function to go back to older puzzles that works fine for me. Functionality subpar. I feel there should be clever navigation in the crosswords, moving between clues should go to unanswered clues (I've seen this in another crossword app). My favourites though are the killer sudokus; however, too often your hint candidates are lost if you have to leave the app and when you return you have to work them out again. Painful

What's new

This update of Guardian Puzzles includes bug fixes and improvements.

The reliability of sharing links for Codeword puzzles has been improved.
Printing Killer Sudoku puzzles will now include the cages.
Selection of Killer Sudoku cages in the player is improved.
Reliability of two player play links and puzzle download has been improved.