ByErik Kain,
Senior Contributor.
Good grief, it’s already the end of November. It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve been guiding you through the Mini Crossword, and I was so busy yesterday that I didn’t post the Saturday guide. My apologies. Such is life. Today’s is pretty easy, so let’s just dive right in and get back to our Lazy Sunday fun-day
The NYT Mini is a smaller, quicker, more digestible, bite-sized version of the larger and more challenging NYT Crossword. While it used to be free, in August the Mini was placed behind the NYT Games App paywall. This has led to a noticeable decline in people playing the game, unfortunately. You can check out all of the NYT Games, free and paid, right here.
A Mini Crossword is typically just 10 to 20 clues, with only Saturday’s puzzle on the upper end of that spread. Here’s what a basic NYT Mini looks like:
