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Zénigme: Crossword & Sudoku

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More than 40 word, number and logic puzzles, each with a new grid every day, in four languages.

Every day: Every one of its 40-plus games gets a new grid each day, the same for everyone; the word games have a separate daily puzzle in each of the four languages. A calendar lets you play days you missed. New puzzle: Each calendar day, grids are dated by day; the listing does not state the hour..

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Zénigme is an Android puzzle app with more than 40 small games, from crosswords and a five-letter word guesser to sudoku, nonograms and a crowns grid. Each game has a new grid every day, the same for every player, and the app has no ads, no purchases and no account.

About Zénigme: Crossword & Sudoku

Zénigme is a collection of daily puzzles for Android made by Jérôme Andrieu, a French developer. It holds more than 40 games on four shelves: word games, grids with clues, numbers and maths, and logic. Each game has its own dated grid for the day, shared by everyone who plays it.

The word shelf has a five-letter guessing game with green and yellow letters, a secret word you close in on through alphabetical order within a theme, a letter wheel, word search, hangman, a word pyramid and a flash definition. The clue shelf has full crosswords, mini crosswords, a cryptogram of a famous quote, word chains, groups of four and missing proverbs. For numbers there is sudoku, kakuro, a target number from six tiles and a mystery equation; the logic shelf has crowns (one per row, column and colour zone), suns and moons, nonograms, bridges, linked colour pairs and a code to crack.

The app plays in English, French, Spanish and German, and the word games are written for each language rather than translated, so a French player gets a French word of the day. Tap a word you found and it shows its definition with translations into the other three languages.

Around the daily grids there are streaks, levels, trophies, a weekly challenge and a marathon that runs every game of the day against the clock. Past days stay open in a calendar, a free play mode gives extra grids, and an optional ranking compares your times with other players and sorts them into weekly leagues using only a nickname. Two players on the same Wi-Fi can solve one grid together or race each other.

Zénigme has no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription, and it works offline. It suits someone who likes a newspaper puzzle page and wants many short puzzles in one place rather than a single game.

How to play Zénigme: Crossword & Sudoku

Install Zénigme from Google Play and choose English, French, Spanish or German.
Pick a game from the word, clue, number or logic shelves; each shows today's date and a new grid.
Read the illustrated tutorial the first time you open a game, then solve the grid: guess the word, fill the crossword, place the crowns or reach the target number.
Use a hint if you are stuck: the first gives a clue, a later one gives the answer.
After solving, read the explained solution with word definitions, then move to the next game or open the calendar to play a day you missed.

Screenshots

A Zénigme mini crossword half filled in, with the clue Below, beneath for 8 Across

Zénigme's Crowns grid of colour zones with two crowns placed and crossed-out cells

Zénigme's Secret word game on the theme Inside the body, with the answer narrowed between CELL and LUNG

Tips

Try the marathon only once you know the rules of each game, since it runs every grid of the day in a row against the clock.
In Secret word, guess words near the middle of the alphabet first to halve the range, as the hints only tell you before or after.
In Crowns, look for a colour zone that fits inside a single row or column: its crown rules out that line for every other zone.
Turn on the daily reminder or the home screen widget if you want to keep a streak going.