You may have heard that doing crosswords helps prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The way they sharpen your memory and learning skills is ideal for learning Spanish. If you are willing to pay for a puzzle, pay for a better one.All types of puzzles are beneficial to the brain. In summary… Don’t pay for a puzzle that is unchallenging and mediocre at best. The manager in charge should be relieved of his puzzle duties. I certainly won’t be subscribing and hope no one else does either. These puzzles are just quick to complete without requiring any deep thinking. There is nothing about these puzzles worth paying a subscription!! The editors seem to be working under the illusion that they have an outstanding product to sell, which is nonsense. The most recent revision restricts users to 3 free crosswords per week, still with annoying ads. Still free but very limited and less friendly. Moreover, the app added long, annoying advertising videos before the game each day… some far too long. Sadly, the next generation reduced the number of games available to the current day, plus access to two previous days if those puzzles had been started. The interface was friendly and easy to use. One could play any game within the current month and more. ![]() Still, it was enjoyable to use and tracked your scores, encouraging you to play. Nothing vĬlose to great puzzles like the NYTimes. Granted, this puzzle is always mediocre, whether in print or electronic format. There was a time when this app was free for all to use instead of linking to the same puzzle on the web. It’s about right for me now, being a crossword newbie, but I feel like I might outgrow them in less than the timeframe of the one year subscription I purchased. In difficulty, they’re roughly equal to a bit easier than an NYT Monday puzzle. The puzzles themselves are pretty good but there can be a lot of word repetition from day to day. I have to force close the app and restart it, then go though the slow multi-step process to get to a puzzle from the archive again. The keyboard acts like it’s working but no letters appear. After I’ve completed a puzzle, if a start a second, more often than not I can’t type in the boxes. Loading the puzzle archive takes forever, and it defaults to showing all puzzles instead of unplayed ones, so you have to select the option for only unplayed puzzles and then wait forever a second time. This makes navigating the puzzle very frustrating, especially when there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind what clue you end up on after completing one. The most recent update removes the previous and next arrows to jump between clues. See the app's settings for more details and customer service contact information. Subscriptions are charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and automatically renew, unless turned off in your iTunes account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. In-app purchases are available for subscriptions. The USA TODAY Crossword app is free to download and play.
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