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Download the Guardian Puzzle App

Challenge yourself with thousands of puzzles from the Guardian and Observer in one easy app

The Guardian Puzzles App
The Guardian Puzzles App
The Guardian Puzzles App

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If you regularly enjoy the Guardian and Observer puzzles, or you take pride in your problem-solving skills, then our app enables you to take on challenges when you’re on-the-go, on your phone or tablet.

Every new user receives 14 days free access to the complete app experience, which includes seven different types of crossword, five levels of sudoku and up to 20 years of archived games.

At the end of your trial either play a new crossword and sudoku every day for free or enjoy full access by subscribing for just £3.49 a month, or save 20% when you pay for the full year at £32.99.

Crosswords

Included within the app are:

  • Quick – a quick crossword, published every Monday to Saturday

  • Cryptic – a cryptic crossword, published every weekday

  • Quiptic – a cryptic puzzle for beginners, published every Monday

  • Weekend – our weekend cryptic, published every Saturday

  • Everyman – a prize crossword, published every Sunday

  • Speedy – a quick crossword, published every Sunday

  • Prize – a prize crossword, published every Saturday

Features

  • Two-player mode, so you can play with a friend

  • Offline play

  • Social sharing

  • Timer, help and clue functions

  • A user-friendly calendar of the enormous Guardian archive

  • Search by crossword setter

Two players collaborate on a Guardian cryptic crossword set by Qaos
Two players collaborate on a Guardian cryptic crossword set by Qaos

Subscribe for just £3.49 a month – or, save 20% when you pay for the full year at £32.99.

Download from the App Store

Download from Google Play

About the Guardian’s crosswords


The Guardian published its first cryptic crossword in 1929, with a prize for its completion of two guineas (£2.10), and our puzzles have appeared in print and then online ever since. Our team of world class crossword setters have always employed pen-names so that solvers can recognise their different styles. Past puzzle setters including Araucaria, Bunthorne and Custos helped develop the modern “Cryptic” while the daily “Quick” puzzle first appeared in the Guardian in 1970. Both have always enjoyed a reputation for being funnier and smarter than crosswords elsewhere. Our ““Quiptic”, “Speedy” and “Weekend” puzzles plus the “Everyman” crossword from the Observer with five games of sudoku of increasing difficulty can also be found in this app – with in total, more than 15,000 puzzles from the Guardian archive available to play.