NYT paywalled it’s Mini crossword earlier this week. An absolutely stupid move. I got introduced to it through my friend Manas in 2022 and it has become a staple of mine and Rhea’s routine ever since. I wait eagerly for 7:30 AM when the new crossword is supposed to come out and it had this nice social aspect of looking at what time your friends finished in (so you could insult them). Both of us have also been logging our scores for the last 1.5 years (you can see the charts on my homepage for how badly I’ve been faring) so it was important to think of how we could continue doing this.
Crosshare is an open-source crossword platform with user-contributed puzzles. It has a nice ‘Daily Mini’ flavor which is what we’re switching to.
So long and thanks for all the fish NYT. I will be with you as long as Wordle and Connections remain free, but who knows how long that might be for.
Related: LA Times also has a Mini flavor
