New York Times Games is the essential app for anyone who loves word, logic and number games. Free to download, the app offers new word puzzle games daily for every skill level.
App Features and Games:
NEW: PIPS
- Find the right spot for each domino.
- Play three puzzles daily: Easy, medium and hard.
CONNECTIONS
- Group words that share a common thread.
- Train your brain and organise 16 terms into four categories using word associations and strategy.
- Analyse your guesses and see how you stack up with Connections Bot.
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.
SPELLING BEE
- Is spelling your strong suit?
- See how many words you can create with 7 letters.
- Build more words to earn more points.
WORDLE
- The official Wordle, a word-guessing game created by Josh Wardle.
- Can you guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less?
- Analyse your guesses and improve your skills with Wordle Bot.
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.
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.
TILES
- Unwind with a pattern-matching game.
- The key is to match elements consecutively.
- Can you keep your chain going?
LETTER BOXED
- Create words using letters around the square.
- Test your word-making skills with daily word puzzle games.
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 strategise with fellow solvers in the forums. Just tap the lightbulb while playing.
- Available for Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and Strands.
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I appreciate the continual improvements being made in this app. Sync feels like it’s getting slightly more reliable in showing you which archive puzzles you’ve already played, though I have had streaks fail because a puzzle completed on one device was not synced before I played the next day’s on a different device. Hopefully work continues in this area.I like the visual style of dark mode but I hope the app goes all in quickly. Having the puzzles dark but menu selection light just makes this harsher when bouncing between them. Please finish creating dark variants for all parts of the app and enable iOS to automatically change it when the system setting changes at sunset.Otherwise, the app is just as good as ever.
Have fun, feel smart on Monday
Simon Gross
I do these every night, close to bedtime. I do Connections, then Wordle. I get the Pangram out on Spelling Bee. If I have time, and I am not yet asleep, I’ll try the Crossword. Mondays and Tuesdays are pretty snappy. Wednesdays and Thursdays are harder. At least you’ll feel smarter at the start of the week. If you’re really out of things to do on a Friday night, and there’s no shame in that by the way, have a go at the Friday puzzle. Why not. There’s always Saturday there to really test you. No shame in getting just a few clues out. It’s how we learn. I’ve started playing the one where the words connect in squiggly lines. What I’m trying to say is think back to the simple joy you felt doing a word search as a kid. That’s NYT Games for me.
Developer Response
Hi there! I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying our games. I will pass your feedback on to the team. Thanks again for playing!
new user
noktara
Just switched to using the app for my daily NYT puzzle activities. Enjoying it so far: good functionality and aesthetics. Only issue atm is that the Mini leaderboard isn't working fully, but I understand they're still rolling this feature out. I'm excited for it to work so my dad and i can be stupidly competitive about our scores :) I hope that the friends tab will also eventually allow your friends to see how you've done on the other puzzles that day, not just the miniEDIT: AHH they just updated the friends tab today to include all the things I ever wanted. thank you!!
Easier navigation
Evadgib
Update: dark mode is a welcome change but please remove white screens in the menus. One gripe. I was just struggling with a crossword. I’m relatively new to enjoying crosswords (thanks to this app) and I figured out what TEBUS was after not being able to finish a few and revealing the answer. Now I have been completing these crosswords with some difficulty but I have just found my first number (3) in a crossword. I suffered over this clue and tried using REBUS with a number of words only to find a number is in the answer. I thought it was an rule that there were no numbers in crosswords. Is it possible to hint somewhere if this is going to be the case? Other than that I love it. Oct 19: I've noticed a few comments on hear mention the navigation and overall layout, it would be great to have an update. I'm a fan of the larger crosswords and not so much the mini/midis, although I do complete the free ones. After I've finished a pack I spend ages trawling through the available packs to find the larger one as not all midis are labelled to indicate they are infact midis. Could you please find a way to distinguish the two? I also agree with other suggestions your users have made here in reviews.Can we please have a dark mode option?
This version contains improvements to keep you solving smoothly!
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Version 6.28.0
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