Solve Quartiles puzzles in News on Mac
In macOS 14.5 or later, Apple News+ subscribers can solve Quartiles puzzles. Players select tiles containing two to four letters from a 4 by 5 grid to form words. You can use up to four tiles per word, and the more tiles you use, the more points you receive. A word formed from four tiles is called a Quartile and is worth 8 points. When you find all five Quartiles, you receive an additional 40 points. The object of the game is to earn the 100 points necessary to reach the Expert rank. You can continue forming words and accumulating points even after you’ve reached Expert.
Note: Apple News, Apple News+ and puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Solve a Quartiles puzzle
In the News app
on your Mac, click Puzzles in the sidebar (or scroll down to the Puzzles group in the Today feed).Click a Quartiles puzzle to open it.
Click tiles in the order you want them to appear, then click
to enter the word.For example, to score a single point, click “pear”, then click
. To score 2 points, click “ap”, then “pear” to form the word, “appear”. Go for 4 points by clicking “ap”, “pear”, then “ance”. Complete the Quartile and score 8 points by spelling “disappearance”. Completed words appear in the Words Found box.
To see all the words you found along with their scores, click
in the Words Found box.After you’ve reached the Expert rank, this box shows how many unfound words remain. Not all possible words appear in the word list. For example, obscure and technical terms, proper nouns and profanity never appear in the word list.
To remove tiles you haven’t yet entered, click
. To shuffle the tiles, click 
.
Change Quartiles puzzle settings
In the News app
on your Mac, click Puzzles in the sidebar (or scroll down to the Puzzles group in the Today feed).Click a Quartiles puzzle to open it.
Click
, then click Settings and do any of the following:How to Play: Run through a quick Quartiles tutorial.
Rankings: Click to see your current ranking — Novice, Apprentice, Builder, Artisan, Wordsmith or Expert — and the number of points needed to move to the next rank.
Reveal All Words: Click to view all the possible tile combinations. Clicking this option before you reach Expert level completes the puzzle, but excludes it from your Scoreboard stats and streaks. Clicking the option after you reach Expert level reveals the words you didn’t find, but doesn’t affect your stats or streaks.
Sort Found Quartiles: Click to choose whether the Quartiles you’ve found sort to the top of the grid or the bottom of the grid.
Share: Choose a sharing method to share a Quartiles puzzle with another Apple News+ subscriber.
More Puzzles: Open the Quartiles puzzle feed.