Crossly
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Crossly! Developed by the innovative team at Mercury Intermedia, Inc., this Word game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 24th July 2014, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 2nd April 2020.
Are you a fan of Word, Puzzle, games? Then Crossly is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Crossly
Over 17 players have rated Crossly. Join them and share your thoughts!
How Much Does Crossly Cost?
Good news! You can download Crossly on your iOS device absolutely free!
Crossly Release Date
Eager to know when Crossly first graced the App Store? It was launched on 24th July 2014.
When Was Crossly Last Updated?
The latest version of Crossly was updated on 2nd April 2020, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Crossly?
To get started with Crossly, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Crossly
Challenge your friends in the fun strategic word game that combines classic crosswords with the spirit of friendly competition! In Crossly™, two players race to fill the board, earning one point per letter and stealing points from their opponents along the way. Clean design, fluid animations and playful messaging work together to make this the best crosswords experience in the App Store.
Features:
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Endless Gameplay: Crossly pulls from tens of thousands of clues to generate unique crossword puzzles on the fly for optimal replay value. No two boards are ever alike!
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Steal & Taunt: When you or your opponent miss a word, the other player may choose to steal for an extra turn and the chance to send a personalized photo Taunt. (In the interest of privacy, Taunts may only be sent between Game Center friends.)
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Peeks: For hard-to-guess clues, you may use one Peek per turn to reveal a letter of your choice. That letter is only visible to the player who initiates the Peek. Bonus Peeks are awarded for completing games and Peek Packs may be acquired via In-App Purchase.
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Penciling: Penciling allows you to work on the board at any time, changing answers and adjusting your strategy as more words are completed. All penciled words are saved, even when your network connection is offline.
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Accessibility: Apple’s VoiceOver technology is fully integrated into every aspect of gameplay, making Crossly one of the most robust crossword experiences for word gamers with visual disabilities.
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Premium Mode: Play unlimited games for free, or unlock Premium Mode for 15 bonus Peeks and colorful themes. Show your love by choosing your own price to upgrade!
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Crossly updated on 2nd April 2020:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the game to get stuck during startup.
User Reviews on Crossly
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Crossly below:
It crashes when we buy stuff beware we didnt get our peeks.
Our family always has head-to-head matches going on, and its been really fun. Theres a lot of friendly rivalry that goes on inside the games and in real life as a result. Sometimes the clues dont make sense or Im pretty sure the words dont exist. But for the most part this is a very enjoyable app.
App may just not be updated for IOS 13.3. When you click on app it never loads.
Just spins forever! Tried to have three other friends load it and no one could get it to launch. We all deleted it and give you 1 star, 0 stars would be more appropriate!
Great puzzle game for friends!
This is simply the only competitive crossword app of its kind, and it does the job splendidly! There are occasional errors and quite a few very hard questions, but thats why you have two people playing and it makes it truly competitive, no matter your level. There should more people playing this!
The crosswords could be better. The words don’t always make sense, like we got ohos as a word that means surprised sound we also got "randr". But most of them are good. The app however is so far super. We think we would prefer a little color. Maybe the text box or the gray boxes could be a light blue. We love being able to play with friends though and that we refreshed automatically.
We only play this with people we know, who agree to use only their minds as a resource. No looking things up on the internet, in books, or asking other friends. The app works well, but starting a match can be a little finicky. We agree to never use peeks, but the stealing mechanic is fun. All of that is overshadowed by the feeling that the puzzles are simply bad. They seem to be programmatically generated from a database of clues and answers. You end up with puzzles that lack cohesion and are often too difficult due to too much esoterica, rather than being difficult due to cleverness. On top of that, the answers can be poorly constructed and often break NYT crossword conventions.
This game is fun. The only problem we have is that it will "hide" games from us. If someone invites us to a rematch it never shows up in our game list, but still gives us a notification. So we have constant notifications on the app but when we go in to play there are no current games.
Best word game for the iPhone. More addictive than Words With Friends!
The sounds are cute and the design is nice and clean. Fun game!
Crosswords need a social element and this is it.
Love the app, great and easy design. However we would love to see our stats, wins/losses, that kind of thing in an update soon!
We think we were a bit late on the "bandwagon" we love the game, but we only ever get to do one turn due to the fact that no one else plays and there are no opponents for us to be matched up to cx pretty disappointed, we love the idea/concept of making a crossword puzzle a head-to-head multiplayer game.
We’re having a blast with this app. So glad it’s accessible with Voiceover screen-reader, too! :)
Until this app, we have never liked doing crosswords. The fact that Im pitted against other people and that we get to taunt them, makes this game very fun to play. Everything about Crossly seems well thought out. Thanks for making crosswords fun!
Very fluid interface and beautifully designed.
We’re not a fan of crossword puzzles, mainly because we’re so bad at them. But the clues in this app are both funny and really clever. We love how you compete and can steal colors.
Really a well thought out game. Awesome UI. Very engaging.
Enjoy playing. Great mind jogger!
Awesome game, but we wish there were more people playing!
We love this app! Easy to cheat we guess but we won’t and if others do it’s their own bad sportsmanship! We highly highly recommend!
Fun & easy to play, but challenging enough to keep it interesting. LOVE the Taunting feature with Game Center friends.
The concept is simple and honestly executed. The sound effects are fun and the design is pleasurable to look at. Only two complains. One, force opponents to forfeit after a few days. We have at least half a dozen unfinished games in our queue for weeks. Two, some of the clues are just straight awful. Number two we can forgive — not everyone is Will Shortz. Number one seems like common sense to us for any app developer with asynchronous gameplay. Get on it, y’all!
Seriously, love this game except for one thing: we’re dumb! Well, not dumb, but some of these clues/answers are very advanced. We’re a Monday kind of puzzle guy :) Let us choose a difficulty, and let "easy" be one of them, and it’s 5 stars!
We’re having trouble with ours, in that it erased all the games we had going, we were getting errors while trying to send moves, and just crashing in the middle of gameplay. Also, when trying to start up the app, it froze in "thinking" mode (or whatever) and we never even made it to the game. We had to kill the app, and restart. When it works though, it’s pretty fun. You earn hints no matter what, so it’s not too hard. The only beef we have with gameplay is that it doesn’t tell you how many words are smashed into the answer (above 1, obviously). That, and it would be nice to have a stats page. And to start games outside of Game Center. Seriously, who uses GC to play games? Keep up the good work! We hope to see some good updates fixing our problems, because when it works like it should, we’ll be paying some money to unlock everything else! Update (12/6/14): Still crashes. Still tells us it’s our turn when it’s not, and vice versa. Please fix… And also maybe come up with boards that are juuuust a bit easier. We’ve never heard of half these words before. Thanks.
We love this game, but it seems to have been abandoned by its developers. We’ve had games that force closed every time we tried to play, rematches that were suddenly with a different person, and times we couldn’t get into the app at all! Also when the other person stops playing, it would be nice that they lose by default.
App is a lot of fun! We love making crossword puzzles competitive. Interface is beautiful and gameplay is awesome! Our only critique is that we really wish the puzzles would have themes to help your brain connect with the clues! Some of the clues can be very broad and a lot of times only include one single word as a clue. If there was a theme to the specific puzzle it would make it fun to complete the entire thing and also make it a little easier to keep a thought track and not have 6 answers to the same clue to guess. Difficulty levels would be nice as well or some sort of rank. :) good app. Look forward to updates and changes.
Great setup – works well and is fun and addictive. (And as a note to other reviewers – If the people you’re playing with are cheating you need new friends. That isn’t the app developers fault.) The main things I’d personally like to see – integration with the Facebook friend list (many of our friends have never registered in Game Center) and in game chat or messaging of some kind rather than just taunts. Otherwise, bravo on a solid game that’s fun as long as your friends aren’t cheaters. :)
Such a great app and a fun game to play. We have 5 or 6 games going at the same time. Do yourself a favor and download this game!
We adore this game. The only thing we would change would be to have differing difficulty levels. It’s just a little too challenging for most people as it is.
We love the game but the hints are horrible. For example, a CDC Member is not a disease and short is not a hint for shy at all.
Great game, but it really needs a chat feature. Also, although it appears as though you can resign games, in actuality you cannot, and the games just sit there forever. If these were fixed the game would be perfect.
Perfect for when your looking for something less time consuming than an entire crossword puzzle. Has the competitive element of Scrabble and a surprising amount of strategy needed to defend words you’ve completed from your opponent who can steal your letters by completing a word using letters from a word you’ve just finished (think Letterpress). Four stars only because we’ve seen some of the longer words repeated, but we expect that will change as Mercury updates the game. Also know one of the devs there and am happy to support s game built in Nashville, Tennessee.
Need a Way to Communicate with the person your playing against.
Our only real complaint is that you can’t send someone a turn reminder. We shouldn’t have to choose between leaving a game unfinished because the other player hasn’t made a move in a week or resigning and taking a loss on a game we are wining because they haven’t played. Add a reminder after 1 day and force forfeit after 3 reminders option and this would be 5 stars from us.
Great concept. Takes too long to load, often. Some answers are way too obscure. Doesn’t always have a notification badge. Needs some work.
We’ve found quite a few errors in various puzzles, including answers that make no sense and answers that are actually backwards. For example: we’re on a puzzle now where the correct answer to a clue should be "toe" but in the puzzle it’s "eot." Kind of takes the fun out of it!
The game is a great concept but whoever is in charge of getting the answers to some of these questions needs to be moved to another position.
Fun game, but the fact people can pay for peeks makes cheating possible (yes, peeking IS cheating).
To be quick, we’re not a Brit. If we were, those would be 5, 6, 7 stars! We’re an American, and roughly 30%-50% of each puzzle uses British lingo. E.g., CLUE: Speak – ANSWER: Uter… What!? It’s utter here in the States. Others like Jewish teacher being REBBE (it’s Rabbi) are just frustrating. If this game could allow Americans to create their own puzzles to submit or get some American puzzle makers it would be 5 stars all the way. Cheerio!
This is a fun game and well designed, but the interaction on Game Center leaves a lot to be desired. Most frustrating is there’s no way to decline a rematch, and there’s no way to end a game without resigning. There are something like ten games on our screen where the opponent stopped playing, and they all take up space until we resign, thus messing up any stats.