Find puzzles in News on Mac

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Click Puzzles in the sidebar.

   • Click the Today feed, scroll down to Latest Puzzles group, then click More Puzzles.

If you want quick access to a specific type of puzzle (crossword, crossword mini, Quartiles or sudoku), you can follow that type.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Click Puzzles in the sidebar, then click Crossword, Mini, Quartiles or Sudoku.

3. Click , then click Follow.

A Puzzles category appears in the sidebar with the puzzle types below it. To make a type a favourite, Control-click the puzzle type, then click Add to Favourites.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Find puzzles in any of the following places:

   • The Today feed

   • The Best of News feed

   • The Puzzles feed

   • The feed for a puzzle type (crossword, crossword mini, Quartiles or sudoku)

3. Click a puzzle to open it.

Crossword and sudoku puzzles have a difficulty rating — easy, moderate or challenging.

You can also solve puzzles from the archive. See View past puzzles, below.

In each puzzle feed, you can find the Scoreboard, which shows your current streak — the number of consecutive days you’ve solved the daily puzzle — and your longest streak. The Scoreboard also provides statistics for each puzzle type — the number of puzzles solved, for example.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Choose the feed for a puzzle type to view the Scoreboard.

   Conditions that affect stats and streaks include the following:

   • If you use the Reveal command to show all or a portion of a puzzle, the puzzle doesn’t count toward your stats and completing the puzzle doesn’t start or continue a streak.

   • Puzzles you complete on a device with macOS 14.5, iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5 or later, count toward your stats — your puzzle playing history on older versions doesn’t count.

   • After you open the News app on a device with macOS 14.5, iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5 or later, any daily puzzles you complete on a device with an earlier version of the OS are added to your streak. For example, if you complete Monday’s crossword and Tuesday’s crossword on your Mac with macOS 14.5, and then solve Wednesday’s crossword on your iPad with iPadOS 17.4, your streak is extended.

   • Users in the continental US and Canada must complete a puzzle within 24 hours of its publication for it to count toward a streak. Users in Alaska and Hawaii get an extra hour or two; they must complete the day’s puzzle before midnight local time.

   • To maintain a sudoku streak, solve at least one of the current day’s sudoku puzzles of any difficulty level without revealing answers.

Your stats and streaks stay up to date on all your Apple devices when you’re signed in to the same Apple Account. Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click your name at the top of the sidebar. Click iCloud on the right, then turn on News (if it isn’t already on).

You can compete against friends and other puzzle solvers in Game Center.

1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Game Center in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)

2. Turn on Game Center, then sign in using your Apple Account.

3. Go to the News app on your Mac.

4. Choose News > Settings, then select Game Center.

Your score for the daily puzzle is submitted to the leaderboard for that puzzle type in Game Center — sudoku has a leaderboard for each difficulty level.

Your score for sudoku, crossword and crossword mini puzzles is the time it took you to solve the puzzle. For Quartiles, your score is the number of points you earned.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Click Puzzles in the sidebar, then click Crossword, Mini, Quartiles or Sudoku.

3. Click a puzzle below Archive to open it.

   For crossword, crossword mini and sudoku puzzles, you can see more past puzzles in the complete puzzle archive. Click next to Archive, then click a puzzle to open it.

   Tip: To show sorting and filtering options for the complete archive of crossword and crossword mini puzzles, click . You can sort from newest to oldest or oldest to newest. You can filter the crossword and sudoku archives by completeness and difficulty level. You can filter the crossword mini archive by completeness only.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Click Puzzles in the sidebar, then click .

3. Click Manage Notifications, then turn on Puzzles.

1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

2. Click the Today feed, then click next to the Latest Puzzles heading.

3. Click Block from Today.

When you block Latest Puzzles, the group no longer appears in your Today feed.