Crossword and Sudoku

[davemchine]

My wife would like to get into both of these and neither of us have ever done them before. Are there any favorite apps that you would recommend?

[MikeF]

Try it before downloading an app... And these...

Not sure if you have to be an AARP member, but:

[Todd's keyboard]

It would be embarrassing to confess to how often I visit web sudoku.com.

Merl Reagle is still my favourite crossword-puzzle creator. I've only ever done crossword puzzle in newspapers, except for Reagle's. I've actually bought several of his compilations.

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[DeusxMac]

Sorry, but neither of you has ever done a crossword puzzle?? How could you escape them?

They were in grade school work books, Weekly Readers, and numerous other publications for kids.

[Grateful11]

One of the easier crossword pages.
https://crosswordclub.com/puzzles/thursd...t-24-2023/

For Sodoku go to Ollie's and buy a giant book for a couple dollars.

[SteveG]

America's affair with crossword puzzles is about 100 years old. . Originated 110 years ago.

The first crossword was published in a New York World supplement in 1913, and gained a steady following until Simon and Schuster published America's first crossword puzzle book. Suddenly, crossword fever swept the nation. The puzzles were so popular in the 1920s that songs were written about them.

or->https://time.com/5811396/crossword-history/
In stressful times, solving a crossword is not just a diversion but a necessary solace. In fact, the crossword puzzle was born in December 1913, on the eve of World War I. Arthur Wynne, an editor at the New York World, needed a new game for that paper’s FUN section. So he printed a blank word-search grid, devised clues so readers could figure out the letters, and called it “FUN’s Word-Cross Puzzle.” A typographical error a few weeks later transposed the puzzle’s title to “Cross-Word,” and the puzzle was permanently re-christened. New solvers became rabid cruciverbalists—that is, crossword fans––practically overnight, latching onto the grid as a refuge from chaos.

As the war progressed and headlines in the World became increasingly bleak, the paper’s advertising efforts to point solvers to the puzzle also dialed up, with banners on the front pages directing readers straight past the dire news and to the crossword for an anchor in increasingly uncertain times.

And as World War I ramped up, so did cruciverbal production, and the activity’s popularity only grew after the Armistice. During the 1920s, the crossword boomed: from crossword-patterned stockings to crossword-themed musicals to comic strips like “Cross Word Cal,” the puzzle was everywhere. However, crosswords themselves were all over the map in terms of their form and content. Though some puzzles were carefully edited and regulated, others were much more freewheeling, all shapes and sizes and riddled with errors.

[RAMd®d]

You can try the free NYT crossword app for free.

I've had it for a few years.

At that time it came with a whole bunch of crosswords that lived in the app, and had one free daily mini crossword every day.

There have been several updates and now it may include Wordle as well.

In the free version, each daily crosswords is available up until a certain time of the day.

Maybe 1900hrs Monday - Friday, 1500hrs Saturday and Sunday.

If you miss the cutoff, you don't get to solve that puzzle.

Updating the freebie to a subscription allows access to all the other crossword packs and the unsolved puzzles one may have missed.

The daily freebie is a very simple one, easily solved in 1~2min or less, but there are others that will take awhile.

There are several other games included now.

When it was just The Crossword, it was a little pricey for my taste, and I don't know what it is now.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyt-games-...d307569751