British-style quick crosswords.
Lattice grids and straight definition clues. Fewer crossings than an American-style puzzle, which changes how you solve it: read for the answer first, and treat the crossing letters as the check rather than the method.
An Android app. iOS is in development, with no date yet — get an email when it lands.
A quick crossword is a lattice: under half the letters sit in both an across and a down answer. A 13×13 puzzle here holds around 30 answers, where a fully-checked grid of the same size would hold twice that.
The practical effect is that you cannot solve this by triangulating letters alone — more often you have to know the answer. The challenge is recall and vocabulary, which is what "quick" has always meant on this kind of puzzle.
Because there are fewer of them, the crossings you do have are worth more. A single checked letter can settle a choice between two synonyms.
Bigger grids, not denser ones.
Easy and Medium are deliberately the same size. The step between them is in the words and the fill, not the grid — the bigger jump comes at Medium to Hard, and the largest at Hard to Expert. The lattice stays a lattice at every difficulty: Expert asks for more vocabulary, not more triangulation.
| Tier | What it is | What that changes |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | 11×11 | Everyday vocabulary and generous fill. |
| Medium | 11×11 | The same grid, harder words. The step is in the fill, on purpose. |
| Hard | 13×13 | Around 30 answers, and less help from crossings than the size suggests. |
| Expert | 15×15 | Full-size lattice. More answers, longer ones, and the widest vocabulary. |
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. The Google library that can read it is not in the build at all. 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