Introducing The Globe’s all-new video games vacation spot

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We’re excited to introduce Globe Games, a brand new digital dwelling for witty wordplay and intelligent logic video games, bringing collectively our new puzzles with the classics you understand and love.

Our redesigned vacation spot delivers a wiser look, smoother navigation, and unique puzzles you gained’t discover wherever else. All video games can be found on our web site, the pill version and your cellphone. We particularly love the expertise on the Globe and Mail app: Just faucet the brand new Play button on the backside of your display to begin.

Here’s a run-down of the brand new Globe Games lineup:

Crosswords

Globe solvers can now take pleasure in North American–fashion crosswords every single day of the week.

• Daily Crossword: Sunday by means of Friday, we problem your phrase abilities by way of the Universal Crossword, a preferred puzzle made by constructors throughout North America, in our app and on-line, in addition to in print.
• The Weekender: Every Saturday within the Daily Crossword slot, Globe Games options an unique Canadian crossword puzzle with a supersized 21×21 grid, made for us by a roster of achieved Canadian crossword constructors. Available in our app, on-line and in print, The Weekender guarantees intelligent themes, enjoyable wordplay and Canadian content material, geared to a mid-range problem degree to attraction to a variety of solvers.
• Globe Mini: Every day, app and on-line solvers can sort out a fast, bite-sized crossword made solely for The Globe by our puzzles and video games editor.

Cryptic Crosswords

For solvers on the lookout for an additional problem, Globe Games additionally options cryptic crosswords every single day of the week.

• Daily Cryptic Crossword: Throughout the week, as at all times, digital and print solvers can participate within the specific pleasure – and problem – of British cryptics on this common puzzle by the Times UK.
• The Weekender Cryptic: In the Daily Cryptic slot on Saturdays, digital Globe Games puzzlers can now remedy Fraser Simpson’s weekly cryptic crossword, a privilege as soon as reserved for our print subscribers. A cryptic skilled whose cluing is understood for its class, Fraser has been making the Saturday cryptic for the Globe since 1994.

Haven’t performed these earlier than? You can be taught to resolve cryptic crosswords. It takes a little bit of a mindset shift, however when you get the dangle of it, you gained’t need to cease. Get Fraser’s suggestions at How to resolve The Globe’s cryptic crossword.

Even extra video games

The Games vacation spot within the Globe app additionally options:

• Headliner: A new weekly Globe-exclusive “drop quote” puzzle, by which solvers drop mixed-up letters right into a grid to unscramble a latest Globe and Mail headline.
• Sudoku: A perennial Globe favorite, supplied each day at three problem ranges, difficult solvers to fill a 9×9 grid with the numbers one by means of 9.
• Wordfinder: A basic word-search puzzle with a brand new theme every day.

Print solvers additionally proceed to take pleasure in a collection of each day puzzles and video games together with Sudoku, Kenken and Bridge.

Discontinuing the Times Concise and the Wordrow

As we roll out our new Games expertise, we’re making changes based mostly on consumer suggestions and game-playing knowledge.

In crosswords, our solvers informed us they wished much less deal with British vocabulary. With that in thoughts, we’re excited to supply the Universal Crossword from Sunday to Friday, and our very personal “The Weekender” on Saturdays – each showing within the Daily Crossword slot.

(The Times Concise crossword is now not accessible in our app, and it will likely be discontinued from our print version as of Feb. 23.)

We consider these crosswords will higher resonate will our each day solvers, as they characteristic extra acquainted content material and vocabulary. The puzzles are typically “themed,” that means they characteristic a intelligent wordplay gimmick that usually seems throughout a number of of the longest Across entries (but it surely could possibly be elsewhere!). They additionally characteristic “fully interlocked” grids, that means each single letter is a part of each an Across and a Down entry, giving solvers two doable methods to search out every one for a extra satisfying fixing expertise.

Keen-eyed puzzlers may even discover that we’ve discontinued Wordrow from our earlier Games web page, to make room for our new gaming expertise.

Comments or Feedback?

Please attain out at gameseditor@globeandmail.com.

-Jess Shulman, Puzzles and Games Editor

-Jayne Bingler, Digital Games Lead