Crossword rules for two players

Setup

• A 7×7 grid. Every answer is at least three letters long, and the clues are listed across and down, the way they're printed under any crossword.
• A new grid every day. You and your partner always get the same one, and you go through the whole set before any grid comes round again.
• Today's grid is free for everyone. Twine+ opens the archive of past days. Nobody gets tomorrow's grid early.

How a round works

1. Tap a square and type. Your letters show in your colour and your partner's in theirs, on both phones.
2. Play side by side or hours apart. Letters travel between your phones, and a phone that was away catches up with everything the other one filled in.
3. If you both change the same square, the later letter stays.
4. Stuck? Check a word to see which of its letters are wrong. Empty squares aren't marked wrong, just not done yet.
5. The grid is solved when every white square holds the right letter.

Scoring and winning

• There's no winner: you solve it together.
• Twine times the solve from the first letter in to the one that finishes the grid. A grid left overnight across time zones is a long solve, and that's fine.
• Solve it on days in a row for a streak. The streak counts up to yesterday as well as today, so it doesn't read zero all morning before today's grid is done.

Play it with your partner on Twine

Pair your phones once and open Crossword for Two: today's grid is waiting for both of you, live or hours apart.

Questions

Is the crossword free?

Today's grid is free for everyone. Twine+ opens the archive of past days.

Do we need to be online at the same time?

No. Fill in a few letters now, and your partner finds the same grid with your letters already in whenever they open it.

What does Check a word do?

It shows which letters in that word are wrong. Empty squares aren't counted as wrong.

What happens if we both type in the same square?

The later letter wins, on both phones.

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