Solve Quartiles puzzles in News on Mac
Apple News+ subscribers can solve Quartiles puzzles. To form words, players select tiles containing two to four letters from a four-by-five grid. You can use up to four tiles per word, and the more tiles you use, the more points you score.
A word formed from four tiles is called a Quartile and is worth eight 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 macOS Feature Availability.
Play Quartiles
Go to the News app
on your Mac.Click tiles in the order you want them to appear (you can reorder them by dragging), then click
to enter the word.For example, to score a single point, click “pear”, then click
. To score two points, click “ap”, then “pear” to form the word “appear”. Go for four points by clicking “ap”, “pear” then “ance”. Complete the Quartile and score eight points by spelling “disappearance”. Completed words appear in the Words Found box, and any Quartiles you find appear in their groups of four tiles.
Not all possible words qualify in Quartiles puzzles. For example, obscure and technical terms, proper nouns and profanity never appear in the word list.
Do any of the following:
See points needed to move to the next rank: Click Next Rank.
Clear tiles you don’t want to use: Click
.See how many words remain: When you reach the Expert rank, the Words Found box shows how many words you haven’t found.
Tip: Click 
, then choose How to Play to take a quick Quartiles tutorial, or choose More Puzzles to open the Quartiles puzzle feed.
Shuffle or group tiles
Go to the News app
on your Mac.Choose a Quartiles puzzle and start finding words.
Quartiles you find are anchored to the bottom of the grid. If you’d rather anchor them to the top of the grid, click
, then choose Sort Found Quartiles.Click
to shuffle tiles that aren’t part of found Quartiles.To shuffle all tiles in the grid, click
to turn off anchoring, then click .
Reveal all words
Go to the News app
on your Mac.Click
, then click Reveal All Words. The words you didn’t find are shown.If you reveal before you reach Expert rank: The puzzle doesn’t count in your Scoreboard stats and streaks.
If you reveal after you reach Expert rank: Your stats and streaks aren’t affected.
Share a puzzle
Go to the News app
on your Mac.Click
, then choose a sharing method to share a Quartiles puzzle with another Apple News+ subscriber. Your rank appears, and anyone opening the puzzle doesn’t see your answers.