The New York Times is starting to test its take on Scrabble

The New York Times' games squad is trying thing new: it's astir to commencement investigating a Scrabble-like crippled it calls Crossplay, but alternatively of folding the crippled into the main NYT Games app, Crossplay volition beryllium a standalone app. The crippled is brushed launching successful New Zealand connected iOS connected June 10th.

I was precocious shown a demo of the crippled by Jonathan Knight, caput of games astatine NYT, and I deliberation it volition look acquainted to immoderate fans of Scrabble oregon Words with Friends. The crippled takes spot betwixt 2 players. Each turn, your extremity is to physique a connection retired of the up to 7 missive tiles connected your tray and the letters already connected the board. Every missive has a antithetic constituent value, and you tin boost your people by taking vantage of bonus tiles connected the committee that multiply your missive oregon connection scores.

(The NYT did not supply screenshots I could publish; Knight says that a screenshot of the crippled close present doesn't correspond wherever it volition beryllium erstwhile it launches much widely.)

The NYT has a fewer of its ain tweaks to differentiate Crossplay from akin games, including antithetic positions for bonus tiles and a antithetic missive distribution, Kn …

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