NYT Games User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.8% of reviews
Neutral10.7% of reviews
Negative experience58.5% of reviews

~ Based on 4,281 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is NYT Games Safe?

NYT Games: Wordle & Crossword appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NYT Games is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 292,857 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 292,857 App Store ratings for NYT Games.

Is NYT Games Legit?

NYT Games: Wordle & Crossword appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NYT Games is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Pay to Play

I should not have to buy a subscription to this to play a crossword puzzle. That is utterly ridiculous. You have to even pay to KEEP playing the FREE game Spelling Bee. That is too much. I’m never going to pay to play word games and no one should have to.

New glitches

I wish the app developers would get back to basics. The app now freezes on occasion, shuffles in Spelling Bee can cease to produce shuffled letters. And many times, the app just becomes unresponsive. I hope they get to the bottom of it.

Version 6.36.0, 6.36.1, 6.37.0, 6.38.0 & 6.39.0

Your Sudoku has not worked correctly under any of these, it is basically unplayable as it does not correctly tell you if a number is placed correctly, only when you run out of spaces that you can see that the game still is not working correctly even after multiple updates.

Try looking at your feedback on this App Store as you are losing subscribers as it appear that you cannot be bothered to fix anything. Each update makes it worse.

The next update was on the 25/08/26 - 6.39.0 is here, and you still have not fixed the Sudoku game, I have had enough of you ignoring people, I will cancel my subscription to you
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COME ON!!!!!

I can't update it!!!!!!!!!!!

Be careful

Scum of the earth. They just start charging you for full access when you buy a game subscription.

They hide it well.

Nagware

I will forever rate any app as one star if it constantly begs me for a review. You’ve asked me for a review every day for months now, so here you go. Enjoy your one star rating for being annoying. My hope is that once I’ve posted this review the nagging will stop 🤞

Some hold my interest

I like wordle, it’s quick but I do have to give it some thought. Connections makes me a little crazy, sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to it, at least not in my mind. I play the new scrabble game with 2 friends but mostly stick to words with friends. I used to play a few other NYT games but they didn’t hold my interest. The crossword and midi are good, sudoku and the domino thing aggravate me. I miss vertex. Spelling bee might be my favorite.
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great when it works

way too often i get nothing but a spinner once i choose a game. this makes it impossible to maintain a streak. i try to play wordle and connections every day. it's VERY frustrating when it will not load either one of them successfully.

NYT greed

NYT continues to make the app more and more awful for the average user. For a while I could play most of the games for free. Then they added ads. Fine. Then they added paywalls for games. Absolutely not. Either let me play the games supported by ads or I just won't play.

And now I can't play ANYTHING without creating an account and logging in? What a joke. Probably making a fortune harvesting our data all for some 5 minutes games with poor app design. Soon enough everything will be behind a paywall and still have ads and need an account. Probably going to ask for biometric data next.
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Its ok

It’s a pretty good app.
I plat Wordle and Strands and the Crossword and Connections mostly.
It’s ok.

Too much data harvesting

Is it too much to ask that a puzzle app for which I pay a monthly fee, doesn’t sell my personal data including precise location data to hundreds of third parties?

Love it but

I can only play cross word puzzles because my parents do not let me go on websites if you cloud add it in not making it go to the website yay

Hello fellow adult hooman beings

I too am a adult hooman being and not a dog grr woof woof I mean yum I sure could use some coffee right now and also I hate children

Update

It won’t let me update it with the version I have

NYT crossword

Do I every day. Witty and fresh

NYT

The best

Annoying re-picking when puzzle is in progress

After periodic updates, the program makes you start all over again at the beginning screen, even if you have a puzzle in progress and just want to resume. It’s annoying. It places you at your resumed puzzle then all of a sudden takes you back to the start of pick a game. It didn’t used to do this. And it happened repeatedly after updates,that sometimes fix it, but more often than not, do not. You need to fix it. It gives me a headache to be suddenly jerked around like that. And it’s a waste of time for all the users in the world that play this. That should be enough reason right there to fix it; if you cared.
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Brain drain app alternative

If you would like to make the time spent on your phone playing games more meaningful, you can’t beat this one!

Version 6.36.0, 6.36.1, 6.37.0 & 6.38.0

Your Sudoku has not worked correctly under any of these, it is basically unplayable as it does not correctly tell you if a number is placed correctly, only when you run out of spaces that you can see that the game still is not working correctly even after multiple updates.

Try looking at your feedback on this App Store as you are losing subscribers as it appear that you cannot be bothered to fix anything. Each update makes it worse.
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Glitchy

The games are great but the app is glitchy and poorly administered. The games take a long time to load. Sometimes I cannot even access them due to subscription notifications and I have to restart my phone.