Telegraph Puzzles: Word Games4.6.0 - App Store

What will you solve today? Turn your spare minutes into moments of victory with Telegraph Puzzles. From quick wins to word, number and logic games, you’ll find a range of rewarding brainteasers in one convenient app.

What’s more, you can now play mini versions of our most popular puzzles FREE - making it easier than ever to score a daily victory.

Our puzzles include:

The 1% Club

Five daily logic questions that get harder as you go, based on the hit TV show
Panagram

Find as many word as you can, including the nine-letter Panagram
Mini Crossword

Fast-paced (but satisfying) fun with a few short clues. Can you crack it in less than a minute?
Sorted

Test your trivia knowledge by putting the answers in order, from monarchs to movies
Cogs

Rotate the blocks of letters to find hidden words and phrases
Quick Crossword

Can you solve our most popular daily crossword?
Cross Atlantic

Pit your wits against a word puzzle with real character
Cryptic Crossword

Find each clue’s real meaning and fill in the grid
Sudoku Regular

Sharpen your solving skills with the classic number game
Sudoku Tough

Are your solving skills up to the challenge?
Killer Sudoku

Prove you’re a Sudoku supremo with one of our toughest games
Kakuro

In the mood for something new? Solve a word game that uses numbers instead...
Codewords Regular

Are you clever enough to crack the code - and fill in the grid?
Codewords Tough

Pit your code-breaking wits against a true test of your mettle
General Knowledge Crossword

See if you can win our biggest weekly prize by conquering our largest puzzle
Toughie

Find out if your patience, perseverance and problem-solving abilities can conquer our hardest crossword
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The Puzzles Archive

With the Telegraph Puzzles app, you’ll never be short of entertainment. Visit our archive and you’ll find more than 30,000 extra games, including even more of your favourite solves.
Streaks and Achievements

Solve a brainteaser every day, or every week, to start building and tracking your Streak in the app. Plus, tackle new brainteasers and reach milestones to earn fun Achievements.
Allow notifications to:

Make sure you don’t lose your daily or weekly Streak
Know as soon as new puzzles are ready to play
Be the first to tackle our latest games and try out new features
So what will you solve today? Download the Telegraph Puzzles app now

Version History A new homepage section for subscribers. The Your Puzzles section keeps puzzles played 3 or more times within the past 30 days at the top of the homepage for easy access and a reminder of daily streaks. 4.6.0 (4) Sep 28 This version includes clearer billing messaging for returning subscribers 4.5.0 (1) Aug 27 Weekly streaks for subscribers
1% Club game improvements
Fix for PlusWord inputs being deleted at random
Fix for Panagram keys being slow to respond 4.3.0 (1) Aug 8 In this version we introduce the following bug fixes:

- The play more puzzles journeys from completion screens now accurately offer today's puzzles first and then the previous 10 days in that priority.
- The in-game timer no longer runs while the 'how-to-play' screens are showing to give more accurate completion stats. 4.0.1 (1) Jul 13 Got a minute? Solve a mini. New mini puzzles available daily for all users. Solve mini Cogs, Panagram, Sudoku, Cryptic, and Codewords for your daily brain boost. 4.0.0 (8) Jul 1 Backend improvements to improve the app's performance. 3.4.0 May 21 Bug fixes and backend improvements. 3.2.0.(1) May 6 In this version we introduce a new, simplified homepage, and specially selected puzzles for new subscribers. 3.0.0 (7) Apr 13 Test your logical thinking in The Telegraph’s 1% Club game, based on the hit TV show. Solve multiple-choice, image, and text-based brainteasers – and see if you can reach the question that only 1% of people can answer. 2.7.2 (1) Feb 24 This release includes fixes for an issue with prize crossword submissions and puzzle gifting.

We value your feedback! Email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you're enjoying the app, please leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.6.3 12/15/2025 Play Cogs, The Telegraph’s online word game with a twist. Rotate each block of letters to form words and phrases, using only the white squares. Lock and unlock your blocks in place and solve the whole grid to win. It’s fun at every turn. 2.6.2 1 11/27/2025 Play Cogs, The Telegraph’s new word puzzle with a twist. Rotate each block of letters to form words and phrases, using only the white squares. Lock and unlock your blocks in place and solve the whole grid to win. It’s fun at every turn. 2.6.1 Build 5 11/24/2025 This version includes bug fixes for smoother solving. 2.5.1 7 11/10/2025 We’re excited to introduce Puzzle Gifting for subscribers. Gift up to 5 puzzles per month, send any non-prize puzzle from the completion screen, recipients can play the puzzle for free on the Puzzles website, each gift link is one-of-a-kind and will work on the first device it’s opened on. See your remaining gifts and reset date right from the app. A great way to connect, compete, or just spread a little puzzle joy!

We value your feedback! Email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you're enjoying the app, please leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.4.2 09/25/2025 We’re excited to introduce Puzzle Gifting for subscribers. Gift up to 5 puzzles per month, send any non-prize puzzle from the completion screen, recipients can play the puzzle for free on the Puzzles website, each gift link is one-of-a-kind and will work on the first device it’s opened on. See your remaining gifts and reset date right from the app. A great way to connect, compete, or just spread a little puzzle joy!

We value your feedback! Email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you're enjoying the app, please leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.4.1 09/24/2025 Includes a fix to ensure all Vintage crosswords are available in the archive 2.3.3 08/28/2025 This release includes a special edition of our most popular puzzles themed around the Thursday Murder Club. Solvers can dive into The Telegraph’s Thursday Murder Club-themed puzzles, packed with hidden references to characters, locations and the plot from the film. 2.3.2 08/12/2025 This release includes a special edition of our most popular puzzles themed around the Thursday Murder Club. Solvers can dive into The Telegraph’s Thursday Murder Club-themed puzzles, packed with hidden references to characters, locations and the plot from the film. 2.2.4 08/11/2025 This release delivers a fix for skip filled squares feature not working correctly on our PlusWord puzzle, plus a bug fix for the issue where users were unable to navigate from a crossword list view back to grid view.

We value your feedback! Email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you're enjoying the app, please leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.2.3 07/29/2025 This release includes design updates for the 100-year anniversary of Telegraph Crosswords. Players can read about the history of our Crossword, and talk to our puzzle compilers and enjoy a special edition of Crosswords.
The release also includes several bug fixes, such as improvements to performance and reduction of visual glitches, making the app feel smoother and more polished. Specifically, it resolves the issue where a banner was blocking crosswords help icons for some users. 2.2.2 07/17/2025 This release includes design updates for the 100-year anniversary of Telegraph Crosswords. Players can read about the history of our Crossword, and talk to our puzzle compilers and enjoy a special edition of Crosswords.
The release also includes several bug fixes, such as improvements to performance and reduction of visual glitches, making the app feel smoother and more polished. Specifically, it resolves the issue where a banner was blocking crosswords help icons for some users. 2.2.1 07/15/2025 This release includes an important bug fix to resolve an issue where new in app subscribers were unable to play Puzzles. We have now resolved this issue and hope you enjoy our daily puzzles.

We value your feedback — if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you’re enjoying the app, we’d love for you to leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.1.3 06/19/2025 This release includes improvements to the user experience of our Kakuro and Sudoku puzzles and important bug fixes including a fix for the issue where users were unable to reset their Suduko grids and a bug which affected users streaks and achievements.

We value your feedback — if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you’re enjoying the app, we’d love for you to leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.1.0 06/11/2025 This update includes a refreshed visual design for the Puzzles app. We’ve added archive links to the homepage to make past puzzles easier to find, and improved the overall user experience on the archive pages, including new filters to help you find completed and uncompleted puzzles easily.

We’ve also made a few functional updates. The Herculis linked words form now reloads if you reopen the puzzle after exiting to find the linked words. Additionally, the crossword’s "skip filled squares" feature is now more intuitive when going back to edit previously inputted answers.

We value your feedback — if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you’re enjoying the app, we’d love for you to leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 2.0.0 (12) 04/22/2025 This update includes platform and performance enhancements for smoother gameplay, and important bug fixes including a fix for Plusword on iPad devices and our Herculis crossword.

We value your feedback - If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email us at product_puzzles@telegraph.co.uk. If you're enjoying the app, we’d love for you to leave a positive rating and review to help grow the Telegraph Puzzles community. 1.5.20 (1) 03/26/2025