American-style crosswords, 9×9 to 15×15.
Fully-checked American-style grids with straight definition clues — no cryptic wordplay, no misdirection. Every single letter belongs to both an across and a down answer, so there is never a letter you can only get one way.
You fill a grid from numbered Across and Down clues. Answers cross each other and share letters, so a word you are sure of helps twice — once in its own answer, and once in every answer it touches.
The clues are straight definitions or synonyms, around a dozen characters on average. There is no question-mark convention signalling a pun, and answers are not abbreviated unless the clue says so. If you have come from a cryptic, the useful adjustment is to stop hunting for a trick.
Expect several answers to fit a clue on its own — "Marking" is fair for LABELING and for half a dozen other words. That is not a flaw to solve around; it is the reason the grid exists. The clue narrows it and the crossing letters finish the job.
Difficulty is grid size.
A larger grid means more answers, longer answers, and more of the puzzle depending on letters you have not found yet. The fully-crossed property does not change with size — Expert is harder because there is more of it, not because it withholds crossings from you.
| Tier | What it is | What that changes |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | 9×9 | Short answers, and a grid you can hold in your head. |
| Medium | 11×11 | More answers, and sections that need a second pass. |
| Hard | 13×13 | Around 64 answers. Long entries start carrying whole corners. |
| Expert | 15×15 | Full size. More of everything, and the longest answers in the game. |
Two hundred puzzles to start — fifty in each of the four difficulties.
Extra puzzles come as packs, sold one at a time. There is no bundle you have to buy to get a fair deal, no "unlock everything" upsell, and no subscription — you buy the pack you want and nothing else.
| Easy pack | 50 puzzles | $1.99 |
|---|---|---|
| Medium pack | 50 puzzles | $1.99 |
| Hard pack | 50 puzzles | $2.49 |
| Expert pack | 50 puzzles | $2.99 |
Purchases are tied to the account you sign in with, so they survive a reinstall or a new device. Prices are US dollars; your local store will show its own.
Not fewer ads, not optional ads, not a "rewarded" video in exchange for a hint. There is no advertising code in the app at all, so there is nothing to interrupt you, nothing to accidentally tap, and nothing that starts appearing later once you are invested.
The Android advertising ID is absent from every one of our binaries, and none of them asks permission to read it. That is checked automatically on every release build before it ships — it is a property of the artifact, not a promise in a policy.
No name, no email address, no phone number, no contacts, no location. When you sign in, the platform offers the app your display name and avatar; the app never reads them.
Your identity with us is a one-way salted hash, computed separately for every game. The same person playing two of our games is two unrelated IDs, and we could not connect them if we wanted to — we removed the ability rather than promising not to use it.
No subscriptions. No expiring content. No energy timer, no "come back tomorrow", no currency to top up. You buy a puzzle pack and it is yours, on every device you sign in from.
Anonymous gameplay measurements: how long a puzzle took, whether it was finished, how many hints it needed. We use them to check that a puzzle labelled Hard is actually hard. Saying that plainly is stronger than implying nothing is measured — the privacy policy spells out every field.
You should not have to take our word for any of it. See the receipts