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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.

NYT Crossplay: Word Games

The New York Times Company

Build Words, Play with Friends

4.9 ★227,427 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
93 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases

About this app

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.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

8 screenshots
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Independent evidence report

Evidence and review signals

This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 2.32.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.32.0, updated 2026-09-25.

What we measured

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How these are measured

Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.

Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured

What the analysis found

App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.

Methodology

This assessment published no findings. That is a statement about what the evidence we had could show, not a clearance of the app.

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 2.32.0.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Items shown2
Lowest$5.99
Highest$49.99
Crossplay - Monthly$5.99
Crossplay - Annual$49.99