NYT Crossplay: Play and Spell

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21.5K reviews
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PEGI 3
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About this game

Play with friends, compete and connect in Crossplay, the first 2-player word game from NYT Games that blends socializing and strategy. Play distraction-free and build words with letter tiles. Use built-in tools to learn, improve and win, or simply enjoy the challenge of this multiplayer game.

App Features:

PLAY
• Take turns placing letter tiles on a shared word game board.
• Build words and rack up points with easy-to-play, focused gameplay.
• No in-app ads. Focus on your word game strategy.

CONNECT
• Easily play word games with friends and family.
• Share strategies and friendly banter with in-game chats.
• Grab your letter tiles and go word-to-word in this multiplayer game.

COMPETE
• Start a friendly competition and climb the leaderboard.
• Play multiple word games against friends or random opponents simultaneously.
• Get matched up with equal opponents.

IMPROVE
• Get tips from Cross Bot after every 2-player game.
• Spell and sharpen your word game skills against the computer.

LEARN
• Expand your vocabulary with the word of the day and a built-in dictionary.
• Check your game history and review your thewords you made on the game board.

STATS
• Track your progress and lifetime stats, including wins and losses, average scores, longest words and more.

BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSPLAY 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
• Crossplay Acceptable Use Policy: https://help.nytimes.com/35116654771220-Crossplay-Acceptable-Use-Policy
Go word-to-word. Challenge yourself or friends in this 2-player word board game
Updated on
Sep 24, 2026
Available on
Android, Windows
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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
    Location, Personal info and 5 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 7 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

20.9K reviews
Thomas Shahbaz
August 6, 2026
Now more dysfunctional than ever before. If you log out, when you log in the app repeatedly crashes and you have to force stop several times, empty data etc, and then STILL it sometimes continues to crash. How is it possible to create such an unstable app?!? And once you're in, it's bugs bugs bugs, bugs galore! Getting worse every day, I may actually uninstall and cancel my subscription.
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Monique Officer
June 30, 2026
Playing just fine for days and winning. Then the game starting making the games be tied when I know I won. tried clearing the cache, logging out/ in and updating the NYT games app to see if it would show the correct score, nothing worked. I uninstalled/ reinstalled the game and lost all my game history against the computer. Frustrating!! It kept the history of the 2 non real players though. I had so many wins against (Hard) computer. Now its ALL GONE!!! FIX THE APP! I put in bug report as well.
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Kris
September 3, 2026
Fun but extremely buggy. I can't put tiles back into my letters after putting it on the board and I can't rearrange my letters anymore either. I waited months to see if it would fix itself but still an issue today. Turns also occasionally don't refresh. submitting words sometimes errors out. it also heats up my phone more than any other graphics intense games like CODM or even genshin which is crazy. I also don't understand why the game is region locked.
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What’s new

This version contains improvements to keep Crossplay running smoothly.

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