How to play
The paper’s crossword page waits on the porch table next to a cup of coffee. It is an arrow-word crossword: the clues sit in the grid’s own squares, and a small arrow shows which way each answer runs. Some clues are pictures, and the answer starts right beside the picture.
Write the answers in the squares. The crossing words help when an answer does not come to mind at once. The orange squares spell the solution word in the order of their numbers, and the row above the grid gathers its letters as you write them.
The daily crossword is a big one, the same for everyone, and it changes at midnight. Quick crosswords are small ones that fit a phone screen whole, with no zooming. Each takes a few minutes, and the next one opens right after. You can also solve random crosswords at three levels: Easy, Medium and Hard. The Archive has the crosswords of past days. An unfinished crossword waits for you, and when you are signed in, the crosswords you have solved follow you from one device to another.
Points
- Each letter you write right yourself scores 10 points times the crossword’s multiplier: Quick crossword 1, Easy 1, Medium 2, Hard 3 and the daily crossword 2.
- A solved crossword adds 100 points and a right solution word 50 points, times the same multiplier. Quick crosswords have no solution word.
- A check costs 40 points and checking one word 4 points. A revealed letter scores nothing.
- If you give up, you score only the letters you wrote right.
Tips
- Start with the short words and the pictures: they often come at once and give letters to the long words.
- Fill in the solution word early: a good guess helps every word that runs through its squares.
- Check one word at a time: it costs much less than checking the whole crossword.
