NYT Games: Crossword & Sudoku

I wish there was a leaderboard for all the games, not just the mini crossword

Tell me why I can only play one game a day, this game is horrible I am never playing again

Would be great to have an archive for connections. One a day isn't enough!

My wife is very ill

Hiiiiiii, I’m Charlotte and I love this game, and loved how you added strands too it. although I wish more of the games were free so I could play much more. Bye bye Bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye okay okay bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye yeah so I’m just gonna leave now bye

I like using the app, and generally enjoy the puzzles. But the new version doesn’t have the weekly selection of old crossword puzzles from the archives. I know I can choose puzzles from the archives, but I miss the random selection.

I was thoroughly enjoying this, until the latest update. Since then ‘Connections’ won’t load. It used to one of my favourites.

I love this app, but this last version with the UI modernisation needs some tweaks. The archive of previous mini leaderboards is a great touch, but it should not remain stuck on previous dates. Each day I complete the mini, the leaderboard should jump to that day. It’s very tedious to open it, discover you last checked it four days ago, and have to tab across to the current date. Let me go back, sure, but I assure you every person clicking on that tab first wants to see today’s data, not old stuff. Second, please revert the swipe behaviour in archive to change between months in your active category, not change between the standard and mini sizes. It’s much easier to swipe backward and forward than hit the tiny arrow target.

The word list for the spelling bee is unusual. It excludes quite a few words that are relatively well known. I am not a fan of the crossword. Most of the clues lack the spark of genius that is the trademark of a great crossword setter. To fit the puzzle, the setter resorts to people’s names and even stoops to using acronyms which suggests that easy ways out are being adopted. This review is written by someone raised in the UK so it’s possible that my expectations are different to those of someone from the USA. On the other hand the technical aspects of the on-line games work well.

It feels that the implementation of the other games to make it “NYT Games” was rushed or something, especially the Sudoku. Biggest grievance is that the “tada” for completion is apparently a song and takes over Now Playing (so this makes it a right pain for audio over Bluetooth acting seemlessly restarting what you were listening to in other apps). But, the lack of undo and proximity of auto fill to the numbers buttons (making mistaken taps too easy) is also problematic and frustrating for puzzle solving.