Find puzzles in News on Mac

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Click Today in the sidebar, then scroll down.

   • Click Puzzles in the sidebar.

   • Click Puzzles in the sidebar, then click Crossword, Crossword Mini, Quartiles, Sudoku, or Emoji Game. To see past puzzles, click next to Archive.

     Tip: To sort or filter a puzzle archive, click .

3. Click a puzzle to open it.

Crossword and sudoku puzzles have a difficulty rating—easy, moderate, or challenging.

If you want quick access to a specific type of puzzle, you can follow that type.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Click Puzzles in the sidebar, then click Crossword, Mini, Quartiles, Sudoku, or Emoji Game.

3. Click , then choose Follow.

A Puzzles category appears in the sidebar with the puzzle types below it. To make a type a favorite, Control-click the puzzle type, then click Add to Favorites.

In each puzzle feed, you can find the Scoreboard, which shows your current streak—the number of consecutive days you solved the daily puzzle—and your longest streak. The Scoreboard also provides statistics for each puzzle type—the number of puzzles solved, for example.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Choose the feed for a puzzle type to view the Scoreboard.

   Conditions that affect stats and streaks include the following:

   • If you use the Reveal command to show all or a portion of a puzzle, the puzzle doesn’t count toward your stats and completing the puzzle doesn’t start or continue a streak.

   • Puzzles you complete on a device with macOS 14.5, iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, or later, count toward your stats—your puzzle playing history on older versions doesn’t count.

   • After you open the News app on a device with macOS 14.5, iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, or later, any daily puzzles you complete on a device with an earlier version of the OS are added to your streak. For example, if you complete Monday’s crossword and Tuesday’s crossword on your Mac with macOS 14.5, and then solve Wednesday’s crossword on your iPad with iPadOS 17.4, your streak is extended.

   • Users in the continental U.S. and Canada must complete a puzzle within 24 hours of its publication for it to count toward a streak. Users in Alaska and Hawaii get an extra hour or two; they must complete the day’s puzzle before midnight local time.

   • To maintain a sudoku streak, solve at least one of the current day’s sudoku puzzles of any difficulty level without revealing answers.

Your stats and streaks stay up to date on all your Apple devices when you’re signed in to the same Apple Account. Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click your name at the top of the sidebar. Click iCloud on the right, then turn on News (if it isn’t already on).

To compete against friends and other puzzle solvers in Game Center and the Apple Games app, you need to turn on Game Center in News.

1. Set up your Game Center profile. See Manage your Game Center profile.

2. Go to the News app on your Mac.

3. Choose News > Settings, then select Game Center.

Your scores appear on the leaderboard for each puzzle type in Game Center. Sudoku has a leaderboard for each difficulty level.

You can also challenge friends to solve crossword, crossword mini, sudoku, and Emoji Game puzzles. See Play together in the Apple Games app.

You can send a link to another Apple News+ subscriber so they can solve a puzzle too.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Open a puzzle, as above.

3. Click , choose Share, then choose Messages, Mail, or another sharing option.

Your answers aren’t shown, but the following information is shared for completed puzzles:

• Crossword, crossword mini, and sudoku: The time it took you to solve the puzzle

• Quartiles: Your rank

• Emoji Game: The number of moves you used to solve the puzzle