CrossEights Blog
Word puzzle strategy, scoring explainers, and product updates from CrossEights.
- The Daily Eight, CrossEights, and the Art of Seeing Words —
- A Thank You to the Puzzle Communities That Found Us —
- A Daily Word Puzzle That Actually Tracks Your Progress —
- Guided by the Data: Fine-Tuning the First-Time Solver Experience —
- A Warmer Welcome: Introducing the Smart Starter for New Solvers —
- Best Daily Word Games to Play —
- Introducing the CrossEights Publisher Program —
- Streaks and Stats and a Performance Chart! —
- Desktop Players: Pick Your Hints Without Leaving the Keyboard —
- The Best Daily No-Download Word Games for People Who Want More Than Wordle —
- The Leaderboard Is Now a Leaderboard —
- What Code-Breaking Puzzles and Word Games Have in Common —
- 21,389 Eight-Letter Words: A Few Things We Learned —
- Why Are Words Easier to Read Across Than Down? —
- How Scoring Works in CrossEights Daily —
- UPDATED: What the Best Daily Players Do Differently (July 22, 2026) —
- Two Player-Driven Improvements: Resume Any Puzzle and a Smarter Keyboard —
- Past Puzzles: Your Daily Archive Is Here —
- Behind the Daily Score: A Small Tune-Up —
- A Bigger Reward for Smart Solving: Introducing the Insight Bonus —
- What the Best Daily Players Do Differently —
- CrossEights: The Sudoku of Word Puzzles —
- UI Refresh: Cleaner Grids, Color Bars, and a Sharper Daily Look —
- Leaderboard Refinements, Scores to Beat, and Goodbye Checkmarks —
- Faster Loads, Sharper Rival Play, and a New Puzzle Leaderboard —
- CrossEights x Colgate: A Custom Puzzle Experience for the Colgate Community —
- Why We Now Show the Solution When You Tap "I'm Done" —
- The Global CrossEights™ Community —
- From Daily to Full Game: What's Different at CrossEights.com —
- What Are Special Blend Puzzles? —
- How CrossEights Daily Compares to Other Daily Word Games —
- CrossEights Featured on WordFinder by YourDictionary —
- The Weekly Difficulty Schedule Explained —
- Daily Puzzle Difficulty Schedule —
- Introducing CrossEights Daily —
- New Puzzles: 3× More Word Diversity & Special Blend —
- New Difficulty Classification System —
- In-App Keyboard & Hint Card Polish —
- Rivals System —
- Performance Improvements —
- Challenge Tracking & History —
- Head-to-Head Challenges —
- Difficulty-Based Leaderboards —
- Hint System Rebalanced —
- Scoring Refinements —
- Beta 2 Launch —
- Difficulty Preferences —