NYT Games: Word Games & Sudoku

4.7
45.6K reviews
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

Keep your mind sharp with word and logic puzzles from New York Times Games. Free to download, the app offers new puzzles daily for every skill level.

App Features and Games:

NEW AD-FREE PUZZLES DAILY
There are never any ads to disrupt the fun in The New York Times Games app, so you can play without distraction.

WORDLE
Play the original Wordle — created by Josh Wardle — in our app. Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less. Then, sharpen your everyday strategy and see how you stack up against the WordleBot, our robotic companion to the puzzle.

SPELLING BEE
Is scrambling your strong suit? Play the daily Spelling Bee and see how many words you can make with 7 letters.

THE CROSSWORD
Subscribers can play the same daily puzzle that’s printed in The New York Times, in our app. Crosswords increase in difficulty throughout the week, so there’s something for everyone.

CONNECTIONS
Our newest word game lets you group words with a common thread. See if you can do it with 4 mistakes or fewer.

SUDOKU
Looking for a numbers game, minus the math? Play Sudoku and fill each 3x3 set of boxes with numbers 1–9. Play a new puzzle every day in easy, medium or hard mode.

THE MINI CROSSWORD
The Mini is all the fun of The Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds. These word games don’t increase in difficulty throughout the week and feature simpler clues.

TILES
Unwind while you match elements in the day’s pattern — the key is to make consecutive matches.

LETTER BOXED
Create words using letters around the square. Letter Boxed is another fun way to test your word-making skills.

STATS
Track your progress for The Crossword, Wordle and Spelling Bee. For The Crossword, monitor your average solve times, see how many puzzles you can solve in a row, and more. Plus follow your streak on Wordle, and track how often you reach each level in Spelling Bee.

LEADERBOARDS
Start a friendly competition with The Mini leaderboards. Add up to 25 friends to see who can solve today’s Mini puzzle the fastest.

PUZZLE ARCHIVE
Subscribers can now solve past Spelling Bee puzzles, plus play over 10,000 crosswords in our archive.

DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS:
You can purchase a monthly or annual New York Times Games subscription.

Enjoy unlimited gameplay, The Crossword archive and more with a monthly or annual subscription. See our subscription offers for further details.

BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES GAMES APP, you agree to:
• The automatic renewal terms stated above.
• 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

Please note: A subscription to New York Times Games does not include access to any other New York Times products, including but not limited to nytimes.com, New York Times Cooking, Wirecutter, mobile news content and other apps on non-iOS devices.
Updated on
May 28, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Financial info, App activity, and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
42.6K reviews
jessica ann willis
May 27, 2024
I play a few of the games regularly. The 1 thing that truly irritates me though is Spelling Bee. I mostly enjoy it but... So many standard, in the dictionary, regularly used words are "not in the word list." It's absurd. Furthermore, there seems to be no logic behind what is included and what isn't. More technical words are often excluded, not always. If I, N, G are among the letters, some gerunds are accepted and others not. It falls short of my expectations for NYT. Please fix it
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The New York Times Company
May 29, 2024
Hi there! Spelling Bee uses an internal lexicon built up over time and not any one source. Our puzzle editors select the words that are best for that day's puzzle. It would not be possible to include every word that can be created using the letters provided that day. Contact us at nytgames@nytimes.com for a more in depth answer.
Kaydi Deutsch
May 26, 2024
Like others have said, I also have a problem with the keyboard and it affects my time on the mini so that's frustrating. Also I want to be able to play the Sudoku every day but it is not archived, and because it changes when the new crossword comes out, I end up missing it all the time. I'm in PST so on the weekend I only have until 3 to complete them. And so if I work or have plans during the day I can't play and it's really upsetting. I hope that this is one of the games that will be archived
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Sara Whitney
May 27, 2024
The games are enjoyable even without the subscription, but I'm on the U.S. East Coast (UTC-4) and whatever timer the app is running on keeps flipping over the puzzles to the next day sometime between 8-10 pm, which seems way too early for a daily/time sensitive app. The weird transition times have also broken some of my streaks which is very annoying.
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What's new

This version contains improvements to keep you solving smoothly!

Have feedback? Email us at nytgames@nytimes.com.