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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 #26, worst RU #65 · 5 markets collected
US · last 30 days
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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 |
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App StoreYou are here | Free | 293.4Kratings | 96% | #26 | not modelled |
| Free | 144.1Kratings | 95% | — | $9.2M |
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Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Good Games, Bad UX As a word lover and crossword nerd, I decided to purchase the NYT Games subscription for the crosswords. I do them daily, along with the spelling bee and letter boxed, and it's often my favorite part of my day. The crosswords are excellent; many thanks to Will Shortz. The reason I write this review is because of a recent update that made the UX much worse. The wordle (free) is now ABOVE the crosswords, which are what I pay for! To make things worse, the first thing we see when opening the app is now a massive ad banner for Crossplay. I understand these decisions from a financial standpoint on the part of NYT, but there is no reason I, paying $53 annually, should have to scroll down a FULL PAGE to get to what I pay for. Please, please, PLEASE add a way to customize the order of the games, at least for your subscribers. As a developer myself, I'm sure this would be easy to implement given the modular design of the games hub. 🙂
Love it except … Since the last two iOS updates, the app sucks up power and overheats my iPhone 11.
Very disappointed! I have subscribed to this app for a few years now and have enjoyed it very much! But now not so much since I have to do a work around just to get it to work. Can’t leave the app to go do something else on the Ipad without having to do the work around to get back in. It’s stupid and frustrating. Being the NYT and given the technology available, you would think someone would be able to make it so that the app would continue to work on older iPads. Will be seriously considering canceling my subscription. Been using the work around for awhile and shouldn’t have too. Fix it!
Two problems in the newest version Before the latest upgrade I would have given it five stars. Two things bug me now: 1. It asks for a review every time you complete the daily crossword. 2. Hints don’t open in the NYT app anymore, so it’s hard to go back and forth if it’s a particularly tough puzzle. You always have to scroll through everything you’ve already read.
Sudoku Good app. Major complaint is that the sudoku feels like an afterthought. I love nyt sudoku, play every day, and would love to see player stats for this, similar to the wordle streaks and other stats and trophies with most of the other games. Would also like to the ability to access previous days’ sudoku puzzles.
Daily practice I play Connections and Wordle daily and am obsessed with Spelling Bee. If I have time, I’ll delve into the Crosswords too. NYT Games always has something for me to both stimulate and wind down my mind.
OVERHEATING Great puzzles BUT … Google this app and overheating. THIS APP OVERHEATS iPhones & iPads & Android (this is well reported) - and no word of a fix. Crossword fan for decades - a NYT is the best. Their crossword app is also the best in terms of operation/function - really smart. Also, it’s getting over bloated with too many additional games - which is fine if you want them - but there is no option just for the Crossword, so you end up paying for puzzle a lot of us don’t care about or have time for. I would suggest a lesser base cost with option to go ‘premium’ And lately, background audio streaming (I.e. Spotify, iTunes etc) will glitch/stop playing- maybe related to the overheating?
Don’t Like Updates I don’t like that the warning to check the puzzle comes on now every time you check a puzzle. There should be an option to turn off—especially for puzzles from the archives.
it’s ok the ads are kinda annoying and i hate that you gotta pay now just to play the mini? it literally used to be free i dont know why yall want all this money for bruh
Great Works good!
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