NYT Games: Wordle & Crosswordios
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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As of Jul 4, 2026stale (74d)
Rating 4.80
Ratings 290,888
Price Free
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Released Mar 27, 2009

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v6.32.1Jul 2, 2026
This version includes a fix for a crash that could occur when playing the daily Crossword puzzle. Have feedback? Email us. [email protected]

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Recent store reviews · rule-based labels
Sampled 359
Positive 123 (34%)
Negative 194 (54%)
Mentions pricing 54 (15%)
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★★★★★positiveJxcm 802 · 2026-09-13 · v6.41.0
Hello
Hello
★★★★★positivebrownthrasher · 2026-09-12 · v6.41.0
Get it
Great fun.
★★★★positivemskFish · 2026-09-11 · v6.41.0
2026 updates, xwords, ipad
6.41.0 Down clues do not go grey or go back to black correctly *********************** Why do you keep making this worse? The dark black boxes around the current clue are terrible. The highlighting of the pertinent boxes when the theme is revealed has gone away. The completed down clues are not grayed out as they are completed. Please fix. And please don’t have the info open through the puzzle. older comments below, you don’t have to bother reading them ************************** For several versions now, the average for the given day is set to some few seconds each time a puzzle is finished. The application must be completely closed (flicked away) and reopened to reset properly.
★★★★negativeMentions pricingJinjaFanlol · 2026-09-11 · v6.41.0
Doesn't let me playyyyyy!😡😡😡😡😡😩😩😩😩😩😩
Do NOT Listen to the positive comments٫ as this rubbish keeps crashing when I open this game! All I can say for sure is😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY THIS INSTANT, OR ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY U NO LET ME PLAYYY!?!?!? I. WANT. A. REFUND!!!!!!
★★★★negativeMentions pricingQpslcjfmpemxdhiwd · 2026-09-11 · v6.41.0
Paywalls Galore
I was considering paying for the service until they put even the Wordle bot behind the paywall. Now I am determined never to pay for it
★★★★★positiveNYTFan❤️ · 2026-09-11 · v6.40.2
NYT Games is my everything
I love it sooooooo much ❤️❤️❤️ more than humans😳 I adore you NYT😍 I am obsessed 👏🏼😘 It’s my life! And I also love baguettes and seahorses and unicorns🌈
★★★★negativeLecturererer · 2026-09-10 · v6.40.2
Can’t play on NY subway
What better place to play NYTimes games than on the NY subway? But you can’t, except for the crossword. Why not? Because the games require an internet connection to start. There is no internet on the subway. And more often than not, there is insufficient time during a stop while riding the train to make a connection that is good enough for the app via the internet available at stations. Crossword works.. but none of the other games. It is clearly not in the users interest to force us to connect to the internet to do a word search game - preventing me from playing the game in the only window of time I want to play it. Fix this already - it has been years.
★★★★★positivePonce Inlet · 2026-09-10 · v6.40.2
The Crossword Archive…
…has become a refuge for me. A trip down memory lane as I progress backward through the archive (I’ve made it back to 2009 so far). Forgotten pop culture references, quaint terms for emerging tech, events which were current at the time, now faded memories and people once familiar, now faintly recalled. The archive goes back in time almost as far as my birth year and I can only hope Father Time lets me reach that end.
★★★★negativeeconio · 2026-09-10 · v6.40.2
Buggy
This is embarrassing. The crossword puzzle now forgets letters that I’ve entered. It seems to be associated with using more than one device. Horrible app quality control.
★★★★negativeqbj · 2026-09-09 · v6.40.1
Still no NYT bonus puzzles
I have the most up-to-date app, I have cleared my browser, have logged out and logged back into the app and still no bonus puzzles. Get this fixed.
★★★★negativeailurokat · 2026-09-09 · v6.40.1
games are fine
occasional crossword bugs (like with the keyboard disappearing when changing apps). app is probably 4 stars but 1 star rn because it literally asks me every day to review it, and I always give stars, but I guess that’s not enough because it did it again today. maybe this will stop it. please don’t harass me for reviews.
★★★★negativeMentions pricingupsetpoorcitizen · 2026-09-09 · v6.40.1
poor? sorry can't play
pay gated everything. used to be a great app. no longer
★★★★positiveFinest Girl Lonely Isle · 2026-09-08 · v6.40.0
love the games, app could be better
i use this app daily, and love the challenge of the games! the only problem i have is the app interface. it does not satisfy common ease-of-access needs, and sometimes can be slow or choppy in responding to user inputs. why is there no button to immediately return to the homepage after completing a puzzle? why can i not select an entire set of one number while playing a sudoku game(such as how sudoku.com allows users to do)? why are 30% of the letters i press on the in-app keyboards not what i meant to, when i am able to type with great accuracy on my phone keyboard throughout the day? why is there no way to dismiss the banners(telling me about bonus puzzles i’ve already solved, and an app i don’t want to download) at the top of the homepage? these are all questions i have, and would love for the issues described to be addressed in future updates. thank you!
★★★★positiveDave50791 · 2026-09-08 · v6.40.0
Fine But Subject to Periodic Bugs
See Title
★★★★positivev1rotate257 · 2026-09-08 · v6.40.0
Give us our Stats Back!
We used to get told at puzzle completion how our time compared to our average. As of 6.40, no longer. Please put it back!!
★★★★★positiveNice1shela · 2026-09-08 · v6.40.0
The pips
I love playing pips, but, though it may be difficult sometimes, I have never been more infuriated by a puzzle then that of the pips on Monday September 7, 2026
★★★★negativeRyankens · 2026-09-07 · v6.40.0
Not free
Not free
★★★★negativeEdburn88 · 2026-09-07 · v6.40.0
Not loading at all
Was working fine for ever. Since yesterday nothing I do works: I even tried deleting and reinstalling the app. All games just get stuck on “loading”
★★★★★neutraltxjulie72 · 2026-09-06 · v6.40.0
Not loading after update
My app updated yesterday and now the puzzles won’t load.
★★★★negativeJuniorTed · 2026-09-06 · v6.40.0
Wordle not working
When trying to play wordle on current version of software with current iOS, Wordle does not load.
★★★★negativeMentions pricingAstrogriff · 2026-09-05 · v6.40.0
Subscription
I used to do wordle and the other games, but now slowly everything needs a membership.
★★★★negativevexiemon · 2026-09-04 · v6.40.0
Confusing!!!!
I went to play the mini crossword last night, 30 minutes before midnight, so I could do yesterday’s puzzle before the new day. I am now seeing that I completed Friday’s puzzle instead of Thursday’s, despite it being 11:30 pm on Thursday when I did it. I really don’t understand why the puzzle would change days before the day has. This is very upsetting as looking forward to the daily mini is a huge highlight of my day, as I’ve been very sick this year. I even have the picture of the text I sent my mom at 11:30 pm of my results for the puzzle that ended up being for the next day. I don’t know that you’ll listen, but it is quite upsetting that the puzzle can change before the new day like that. Very confusing. At what point IS the cut-off???
★★★★negativeULTIMATEHATER · 2026-09-04 · v6.40.0
😡
wordle is too hard and is stupid
★★★★negativedavidr625 · 2026-09-03 · v6.40.0
Uncloseable windows
Hints do not work now and any window open within games isn’t closeable. Been happening for weeks for Me. Please fix it and I’ll change my rating.
★★★★negativeErika Terry · 2026-09-03 · v6.40.0
Joist
I’ll joist your mom