Crossplay App: NYT Games Launches Scrabble-Like Two-Player Word Game
The New York Times has launched a brand-new two-player game for the first time!
Crossplay is available in a standalone app and is not part of the standard NYT Games app. It’s similar to Scrabble and Words with Friends, though there are some differences.
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The Times’ head of games, Jonathan Knight, told THR, “Look, it’s a classic format. We did set about to make an original game. So we thought about the game board layout and what would make the most sense for us as The New York Times in terms of just the visual layout of the board, the logic and the math behind where all the bonus tiles go. It’s an original tile bag [with] the distribution of letters.”
NY Times has figured out a way to end the game, which can be a problem with other online word games. Once the tile bag is empty, the “last turn” will happen.
Knight said, “We thought about how games end, which, historically in this category, is like a problem to be solved. They just kind of go on and on and on. So we introduced this ‘last turn’ mechanic, which is original and we’re excited about, so I think we did a lot of things like that to make sure that the core experience was original and true to us.”
Download the game HERE.
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