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Crossword Master - Word Puzzle
A two-player crossword where you draw letters from a deck and race an opponent for points.
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- Developer
- Easybrain Ltd
- Score
- 4.8
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Genre
- Word
- Price
- Free
Screenshots
About this game
Crossword Master turns the crossword into a turn-based duel. Two players fill the same grid, drawing letters from a shared deck and placing them to answer clues, and the score decides the winner rather than who finishes first. The clues sit inside the grid cells in the Scandinavian style, and some are pictures instead of text. Each turn you hold five letters and try to place as many as you can. Every correct letter is worth a point, with bonuses for finishing words, so longer words and multi-word plays pay off. Holding back a letter for a bigger play later is a legitimate tactic. Hints are available when a clue stumps you, and progress is auto-saved so an unfinished puzzle can be picked up later. There's no clock, so matches move at whatever pace the two players set.
Crossword Master - Word Puzzle: the full guide
What the game is
A crossword turned into a two-player board game. Both players work one grid, pulling letters from a common deck and laying them down to answer clues, and the winner is whoever scores more, not whoever finishes first. Clues are embedded in the grid in the Scandinavian arrow style, and some of them are pictures.
Easybrain's design turns letter management into the strategic layer. You hold five letters per turn, every correct placement scores a point, and completing words earns bonuses, so hoarding a letter for a bigger play is often the right call. There's no timer at all.
How a session plays
Your turn comes around, you look at the five letters in hand and the clues still open, and you place as many as you can where they fit. Sometimes that's a quick dump of three letters into easy slots; sometimes it's holding back a Q because you've spotted where it'll land next turn with a word-completion bonus attached.
Matches run as slow or as fast as both players like, since nothing times out. Hints help with a stubborn clue. A game can sit half-finished for days and pick up where it left off, which makes it a good long-distance game between friends.
Why people look for it
Crossword people who want an opponent. The solo crossword has no social dimension, and the competitive word games that do exist are usually about tile placement rather than clues. This sits between the two. The picture clues and the Scandinavian layout also attract players from countries where that format is the norm and standard American-style grids feel foreign.
Look and feel
Word puzzles need legibility above everything, and the five screenshots here will show a dense grid with clues embedded in cells, a rack of five letters, and a score strip for both players. Picture clues add small illustrations to the grid. Expect a lot of white space and a restrained palette; the information density of the grid itself leaves no room for decoration.
Updates and upkeep
Easybrain Ltd is a sizeable puzzle publisher, and 4.8 from more than a hundred thousand reviews is as strong a result as this batch contains. Turn-based multiplayer needs servers to relay moves and store half-finished games, so the game's health is tied to the company keeping them up. Only the App Store is linked on our page. Update cadence isn't disclosed.
